diff --git a/srcpkgs/freetype/template b/srcpkgs/freetype/template
index 5d1da5268a6..fac429ad7fd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/freetype/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/freetype/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template build file 'freetype'.
 pkgname=freetype
-version=2.5.5
-revision=4
+version=2.6
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpng-devel"
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="http://www.freetype.org/"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=387bcc4b780b12484aa2ec9f7db1a55d8286eb5639f45fbc0fbba7a4e5a1afb9
+checksum=8469fb8124764f85029cc8247c31e132a2c5e51084ddce2a44ea32ee4ae8347e
 
 build_options="ultimate"
 desc_option_ultimate="Enable ultimate patchset"
 
-if [ ${build_option_ultimate} ]; then
+if [ "${build_option_ultimate}" ]; then
 	_ultimate_version="2015-06-01"
 	_ultimate_wrksrc="${XBPS_BUILDDIR}/fontconfig-ultimate-${_ultimate_version}/"
 	distfiles+=" https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/archive/${_ultimate_version}.tar.gz"