diff --git a/science/misc/hdf5/pspec.xml b/science/misc/hdf5/pspec.xml
index 95852602d6..904d5e154d 100644
--- a/science/misc/hdf5/pspec.xml
+++ b/science/misc/hdf5/pspec.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <IsA>library</IsA>
         <Summary>NCSA Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Software Library and Utilities</Summary>
         <Description>HDF5 is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="a7b631778cb289edec670f665d2c3265983a0d53" type="tarbz2">http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.16.tar.bz2</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="640f1a46cb1b353339695355b4fca42df05be765" type="tarbz2">http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.17.tar.bz2</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>time</Dependency>
             <Dependency>libgfortran</Dependency>
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@
 
     <History>
         <Update release="2">
-            <Date>2016-06-09</Date>
-            <Version>1.8.16</Version>
-            <Comment>Release Bump</Comment>
+            <Date>2016-06-10</Date>
+            <Version>1.8.17</Version>
+            <Comment>Version Bump</Comment>
             <Name>Pisi Linux Community</Name>
             <Email>admin@pisilinux.org</Email>
         </Update>