diff --git a/devel/readline/Makefile b/devel/readline/Makefile
index 11649de39e25..d648999accef 100644
--- a/devel/readline/Makefile
+++ b/devel/readline/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.49 2009/08/26 20:37:00 wiz Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.50 2010/01/16 17:18:27 wiz Exp $
 #
 
-DISTNAME=	readline-6.0
+DISTNAME=	readline-6.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_GNU:=readline/}
 
diff --git a/devel/readline/distinfo b/devel/readline/distinfo
index e62a6f6ee6a4..595c439b302e 100644
--- a/devel/readline/distinfo
+++ b/devel/readline/distinfo
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.16 2009/02/23 12:35:46 wiz Exp $
+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.17 2010/01/16 17:18:27 wiz Exp $
 
-SHA1 (readline-6.0.tar.gz) = 1e511b091514ef631c539552316787c75ace5262
-RMD160 (readline-6.0.tar.gz) = 9f886f437dfa3387cb3a4ce3439cefecffc2c789
-Size (readline-6.0.tar.gz) = 2270818 bytes
+SHA1 (readline-6.1.tar.gz) = 54840a0dc907e7fa598d7ffcdcbd17bae69ace83
+RMD160 (readline-6.1.tar.gz) = b50f47a3952e354655056d9684b05ee65027e291
+Size (readline-6.1.tar.gz) = 2261725 bytes
 SHA1 (patch-ae) = 5ef968372e27be7a4f5bfbfd71f8bcd371ab99e9
 SHA1 (patch-ag) = 3114e6959dfff3e2aae74c3df3ba4b0f692b79bb
 SHA1 (patch-ah) = 107701a092b4294907e9a2066cfa7cbb3afad301