diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.15.x.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.16.x.nix
similarity index 91%
rename from pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.15.x.nix
rename to pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.16.x.nix
index 507df5def0c1..43efcf462800 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.15.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.16.x.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, perl, autoconf, makeWrapper, doCheck ? false }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "automake-1.15.1";
+  name = "automake-1.16";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/automake/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1bzd9g32dfm4rsbw93ld9x7b5nc1y6i4m6zp032qf1i28a8s6sxg";
+    sha256 = "12jvcmkcmd5p14b41w9f7ixd3sca97pymd6lqbkwnl8qn6bjv3zr";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf perl ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 70516d3c5333..a41aeb7a1f59 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7339,11 +7339,11 @@ with pkgs;
 
   autocutsel = callPackage ../tools/X11/autocutsel{ };
 
-  automake = automake115x;
+  automake = automake116x;
 
   automake111x = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.11.x.nix { };
 
-  automake115x = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.15.x.nix { };
+  automake116x = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.16.x.nix { };
 
   automoc4 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automoc4 { };