diff --git a/Formula/libmagic.rb b/Formula/libmagic.rb
index 2a02bd0d550..4d524abdbba 100644
--- a/Formula/libmagic.rb
+++ b/Formula/libmagic.rb
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ require 'formula'
 
 class Libmagic < Formula
   homepage 'http://www.darwinsys.com/file/'
-  url 'ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.15.tar.gz'
-  mirror 'http://fossies.org/unix/misc/file-5.15.tar.gz'
-  sha1 'de1a060aa5fe61c1a6f0359fb526e824b4244323'
+  url 'ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.16.tar.gz'
+  mirror 'http://fossies.org/unix/misc/file-5.16.tar.gz'
+  sha1 '12fd8ca35705bb24b00135ee65cb7de2d53aa69a'
 
   option :universal