diff --git a/rxvt-unicode/.md5sum b/rxvt-unicode/.md5sum
index b9905194d..cef25a582 100644
--- a/rxvt-unicode/.md5sum
+++ b/rxvt-unicode/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8bb2746eaa814f90d795534d67d9198a  rxvt-unicode-7.8.tar.bz2
+7a0c73ccf0e31808ad37b61e730cd10e  rxvt-unicode-7.9.tar.bz2
diff --git a/rxvt-unicode/Pkgfile b/rxvt-unicode/Pkgfile
index 3d2a33c3a..8b7751569 100644
--- a/rxvt-unicode/Pkgfile
+++ b/rxvt-unicode/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on: x11, perl
 
 name=rxvt-unicode
-version=7.8
+version=7.9
 release=1
 source=(http://dist.schmorp.de/$name/$name-$version.tar.bz2)