diff --git a/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml b/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml
index c33640596f..99176458f3 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="3c74a9de2c2d669066b9f2616f1fcfada39b85a4" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnome/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.8.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="93086c2127efcd09c03fc80061c8f2b8938a1184" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnome/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.9.tar.xz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>help2man</Dependency>
             <Dependency>glib2-devel</Dependency>
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="29">
+            <Date>2023-07-02</Date>
+            <Version>0.56.9</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Mustafa Cinasal</Name>
+            <Email>muscnsl@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="28">
             <Date>2023-05-25</Date>
             <Version>0.56.8</Version>