diff --git a/package/memcached/memcached.hash b/package/memcached/memcached.hash
index c223a14bacf2..bd2072df0b87 100644
--- a/package/memcached/memcached.hash
+++ b/package/memcached/memcached.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# From http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.6.21.tar.gz.sha1
-sha1  6d899680b4ba4b76b6c92120143cf87630ee984a  memcached-1.6.21.tar.gz
+# From http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.6.22.tar.gz.sha1
+sha1  7a691f390d59616dbebfc9e2e4942d499c39a338  memcached-1.6.22.tar.gz
 
 # Locally computed
-sha256  c788980efc417dd5d93c442b1c8b8769fb2018896c29de3887d22a2f143da2ee  memcached-1.6.21.tar.gz
+sha256  34783a90a4ccf74c4107085fd92b688749d23b276cfdad9f04e4f725a05d1ca7  memcached-1.6.22.tar.gz
 sha256  bc887c4ad8051fe690ace9528fe37a2e0bb362e6d963331d82e845ca9b585a0c  COPYING
diff --git a/package/memcached/memcached.mk b/package/memcached/memcached.mk
index a1a5eac04988..05ae69eb3294 100644
--- a/package/memcached/memcached.mk
+++ b/package/memcached/memcached.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MEMCACHED_VERSION = 1.6.21
+MEMCACHED_VERSION = 1.6.22
 MEMCACHED_SITE = http://www.memcached.org/files
 MEMCACHED_DEPENDENCIES = libevent
 MEMCACHED_CONF_ENV = ac_cv_prog_cc_c99='-std=gnu99'