diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 3d5db5f1c58..454e3b8d267 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -4280,8 +4280,8 @@ libusrsctp.so.2 usrsctp-0.9.5.0_1
 libdatachannel.so.0.19.1 libdatachannel-0.19.1_1
 libgeotiff.so.5 libgeotiff-1.7.1_1
 libdraco.so.8 draco-1.5.6_1
-libpdal_base.so.15 libpdal-2.5.6_1
-libpdal_util.so.15 libpdal-2.5.6_1
+libpdal_base.so.16 libpdal-2.6.2_1
+libpdalcpp.so.16 libpdal-2.6.2_1
 libdisplay-info.so.1 libdisplay-info-0.1.1_1
 libsqsh.so.1 libsqsh-1.3.0_1
 libunicode.so.0.4 libunicode-0.4.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpdal/template b/srcpkgs/libpdal/template
index 812729bbd7c..e0d517c709e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libpdal/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpdal/template
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 # Template file for 'libpdal'
 pkgname=libpdal
-version=2.5.6
+version=2.6.2
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 build_helper="qemu"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="libcurl-devel libgdal-devel libgeotiff-devel libunwind-devel
- libxml2-devel python3-devel tiff-devel zlib-devel"
+ libxml2-devel proj-devel python3-devel tiff-devel zlib-devel"
 checkdepends="libgdal-tools"
 short_desc="Point Data Abstraction Library"
 maintainer="Arjan Mossel <arjanmossel@gmail.com>"
 license="BSD-3-Clause"
 homepage="https://pdal.io/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/releases/download/${version}/PDAL-${version}-src.tar.gz"
-checksum=c4f51e7bb9843ecc5d51c47aad87d8ddbd919111fb49222294c5835be7c1fa85
+checksum=9d532d745339cd793fbcab49ca56f05eb66779b8bd3e9f5c188c0238fee87d21
 
 do_check() {
 	cd build