diff --git a/srcpkgs/kernel/common-vars b/srcpkgs/kernel/common-vars
index 90c0a6551b4..4b803ba1164 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kernel/common-vars
+++ b/srcpkgs/kernel/common-vars
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Common vars shared by the 'kernel' and 'kernel-libc-headers'
 # build templates.
 _kmajorver=3.1
-version=${_kmajorver}.5
+version=${_kmajorver}.6
 wrksrc="linux-${version}"
 distfiles="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux//kernel/v3.x/linux-${version}.tar.xz"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.kernel.org"
 license="GPL-2"
-checksum=13f4b8bc36f1040c0ceade1c50482216dc405bf77eb0961165e9214b0528e1db
+checksum=8d86dcfda3d29eb2e1b4b543d4e809bfc40cc7eafd74f550d35902af74afb32f