diff --git a/dev-cpp/benchmark/benchmark-1.5.6.recipe b/dev-cpp/benchmark/benchmark-1.6.1.recipe
similarity index 94%
rename from dev-cpp/benchmark/benchmark-1.5.6.recipe
rename to dev-cpp/benchmark/benchmark-1.6.1.recipe
index 214767306..e6c2414ba 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/benchmark/benchmark-1.5.6.recipe
+++ b/dev-cpp/benchmark/benchmark-1.6.1.recipe
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ DESCRIPTION="A library to support the benchmarking of functions, similar to unit
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/google/benchmark/"
 COPYRIGHT="2015-2017 Google Benchmark developers"
 LICENSE="Apache v2"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="1"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/google/benchmark/archive/v$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="789f85b4810d13ff803834ea75999e41b326405d83d6a538baf01499eda96102"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="6132883bc8c9b0df5375b16ab520fac1a85dc9e4cf5be59480448ece74b278d4"
 SOURCE_FILENAME="benchmark-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="all !x86_gcc2 ?x86"