diff --git a/main/py-yaml/APKBUILD b/main/py-yaml/APKBUILD
index 91e7dd19cd8..aa07a78d483 100644
--- a/main/py-yaml/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/py-yaml/APKBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch>
 pkgname=py-yaml
 _pkgname=PyYAML
-pkgver=4.1
+pkgver=5.1
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Python bindings for YAML"
 url="http://pyyaml.org"
@@ -49,4 +49,4 @@ _py() {
 	$python setup.py install --prefix=/usr --root="$subpkgdir"
 }
 
-sha512sums="3eb30d0d2f7e300dda98ad8378fa2ec4488071d165a7649d21ac32e1b3efeee14ee00ba86a32ba2db0c491866480f18480dec3e552ab7df82115bd9669833119  PyYAML-4.1.tar.gz"
+sha512sums="e49f593b9f60018efa19629b902ad1e56f79537106a4cd019baa324a74a8af7563d294db012280261fc7fa9d686dd5af656e22fb4bf6a6ccfd0084515b9591d5  PyYAML-5.1.tar.gz"