diff --git a/templates/libarchive/template b/templates/libarchive/template
index 611fc5eb313..89dbeb6a46e 100644
--- a/templates/libarchive/template
+++ b/templates/libarchive/template
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'libarchive'
 pkgname=libarchive
-version=2.5.5
-distfiles="http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/$pkgname/src/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+version=2.6.1
+distfiles="http://libarchive.googlecode.com/files/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args=" --disable-bsdcpio --disable-bsdtar --disable-xattr
  --disable-acl"
 short_desc="Library to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, iso9660, etc."
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=b566ffd57b6d39ea9614b03df29950064c92015d3324072b053a0bf43375a9a9
+checksum=4d0ad4e5c33aa9725c7d92a42ae605815781372db949cd9906945e6c0d85c179
 long_desc="
  Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several
  different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants,