diff --git a/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml b/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml
index 47d0e974f9..e38dd05c40 100644
--- a/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         <License>BSD</License>
         <Summary>A modern programming language for GNOME</Summary>
         <Description>Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="f1cd27c917932136300e8ee7ea1fdd91a85f395c" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnome/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.15.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="801fe7d003af9749f4e74e24788ebe1b419ed964" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnome/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.16.tar.xz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>help2man</Dependency>
             <Dependency>glib2-devel</Dependency>
@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="37">
+            <Date>2024-03-14</Date>
+            <Version>0.56.16</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Mustafa Cinasal</Name>
+            <Email>muscnsl@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="36">
             <Date>2024-03-05</Date>
             <Version>0.56.15</Version>