diff --git a/recipes/phabox/meta.yaml b/recipes/phabox/meta.yaml
index 940dad736add2..e0d79c7fc83a0 100644
--- a/recipes/phabox/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/phabox/meta.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {% set name = "PhaBOX" %}
-{% set version = "2.1.5" %}
+{% set version = "2.1.6" %}
 
 package:
   name: "{{ name|lower }}"
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ package:
 
 source:
   url: https://github.com/KennthShang/{{ name }}/archive/refs/tags/v{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: 875124cd1568fcb706662e7f86ff7e1ef79b38944156c8c5d0b1b329d983d73a
+  sha256: 548c1e374fc434f12fe1be998f4a8f707403eb56e68a0c8e4f6da14dbf98a7eb
 
 build:
   number: 0
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ requirements:
     - seaborn-base >=0.13.2
     - transformers >=4
     - blast >=2.16.0
-    - diamond <=0.9.14
+    - diamond =0.9.14
     - mcl >=22.282
     - accelerate >=1.0.1