diff --git a/file/.md5sum b/file/.md5sum
index 75324a83..adbfe2b9 100644
--- a/file/.md5sum
+++ b/file/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8fb13e5259fe447e02c4a37bc7225add  file-5.22.tar.gz
+61db35209ce71a6d576392ce6e1d2f80  file-5.23.tar.gz
diff --git a/file/Pkgfile b/file/Pkgfile
index a975352a..83c7254b 100644
--- a/file/Pkgfile
+++ b/file/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  zlib
 
 name=file
-version=5.22
+version=5.23
 release=1
 source=(ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/$name-$version.tar.gz)