diff --git a/science/gis/pdal/pspec.xml b/science/gis/pdal/pspec.xml
index 75aea87563..db199992e5 100644
--- a/science/gis/pdal/pspec.xml
+++ b/science/gis/pdal/pspec.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         <Icon>pdal</Icon>
         <Summary>PDAL is Point Data Abstraction Library.</Summary>
         <Description>PDAL is a C++ library for translating and manipulating point cloud data. It is very much like the GDAL library which handles raster and vector data. The About page provides high level overview of the library and its philosophy.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="415e86696cc8e148d1413efd038bc0321a7f7b82" type="targz">https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/releases/download/2.4.3/PDAL-2.4.3-src.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="9b5c74e03c83507a26f9c59a4532a3623eaefbbb" type="targz">https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/releases/download/2.5.6/PDAL-2.5.6-src.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>cmake</Dependency>
             <Dependency>ninja</Dependency>
@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="3">
+            <Date>2023-11-05</Date>
+            <Version>2.5.6</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Mustafa Cinasal</Name>
+            <Email>muscnsl@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="2">
             <Date>2023-11-01</Date>
             <Version>2.4.3</Version>