diff --git a/system/devel/flex/pspec.xml b/system/devel/flex/pspec.xml
index d232ac6c..d371c889 100644
--- a/system/devel/flex/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/devel/flex/pspec.xml
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@
         <IsA>app:console</IsA>
         <Summary>GNU lexical analyser generator</Summary>
         <Description>Flex is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="cfe10b5de4893ced356adc437e78018e715818c3" type="targz">mirrors://sourceforge/flex/flex-2.6.0.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="f344d892aee6eb512c9b613a6b7feab2dbcc1200" type="tarxz">https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/download/v2.6.1/flex-2.6.1.tar.xz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>patch</Dependency>
             <Dependency>texinfo</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>
         <Patches>
-            <Patch level="1">flex-2.5.37-notex.patch</Patch>
+<!--             <Patch level="1">flex-2.5.37-notex.patch</Patch> -->
         </Patches>
     </Source>
 
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="3">
+            <Date>2016-10-05</Date>
+            <Version>2.6.1</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Yusuf Aydemir</Name>
+            <Email>yusuf.aydemir@pisilnux.org</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="2">
             <Date>2016-04-27</Date>
             <Version>2.6.0</Version>