diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 066eeb8..0667cf1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /extra-1.5.3.tar.gz
+/extra-1.6.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/ghc-extra.spec b/ghc-extra.spec
index 601e212..f31e9d4 100644
--- a/ghc-extra.spec
+++ b/ghc-extra.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 %bcond_without tests
 
 Name:           ghc-%{pkg_name}
-Version:        1.5.3
+Version:        1.6.2
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Extra Haskell functions 
 
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ This package provides the Haskell %{pkg_name} library development files.
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 24 2018 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 1.6.2-1
+- update to 1.6.2
+
 * Thu Dec 21 2017 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 1.5.3-1
 - spec file generated by cabal-rpm-0.12
 - test RTS -N4 failing on aarch64 and s390x
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 09dd8d7..227f638 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (extra-1.5.3.tar.gz) = c8b553ea71b1195951048c5e3a95572338714289d8909996fce61ca117c45eb010ab2eaed22f69aa59372ae1cb5fae731a85d60b6d7181ae99c48a2bb05110da
+SHA512 (extra-1.6.2.tar.gz) = 388471b91d3f5a0abfd349aee0f3f4619cb34576c0190b023e620b914be3c9ed85b7e953251fe69a16aba00c6e443a14801c1c986360992bb0235501a9f94f53