diff --git a/mingw-w64-freetds/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-freetds/PKGBUILD
index 1df6b6c9ba..9e573e937a 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-freetds/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-freetds/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 _realname=freetds
 pkgbase=mingw-w64-${_realname}
 pkgname="${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-${_realname}"
-pkgver=1.5.4
+pkgver=1.5.6
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A free implementation of Sybase's DB-Library, CT-Library and ODBC libraries (mingw-w64)"
 arch=('any')
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ msys2_issue_tracker_url='https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds/issues/'
 msys2_references=(
   'archlinux: freetds'
   "cpe: cpe:/a:freetds:freetds"
+  'gentoo: dev-db/freetds'
 )
 license=('spdx:LGPL-2.0-or-later')
 depends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cc-libs"
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cc"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-autotools"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-pkgconf")
 source=(https://www.freetds.org/files/stable/freetds-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
-sha256sums=('16b688b3f16325bc69851c03b9c97f2f686a94c7e44f6c758ea188dea3b9ab1f')
+sha256sums=('4d4a6ae271dd944531db5b10e110540d020bf99d9986237c8ac5137d894d4149')
 
 build() {
   mkdir -p "${srcdir}/build-${MSYSTEM}" && cd "${srcdir}/build-${MSYSTEM}"