diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
index 36f171d8f..3e221e833 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 5.9
+CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 6.0
 CIFS_UTILS_SOURCE  = cifs-utils-$(CIFS_UTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2
 CIFS_UTILS_SITE    = http://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils
 CIFS_UTILS_LICENSE = GPLv3