diff --git a/socat/.md5sum b/socat/.md5sum
index 2fef7e205..612870252 100644
--- a/socat/.md5sum
+++ b/socat/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-52b0216607e35bdfba247560fb85dd82  socat-1.7.1.1.tar.gz
+9c0c5e83ce665f38d4d3aababad275eb  socat-1.7.1.2.tar.bz2
diff --git a/socat/Pkgfile b/socat/Pkgfile
index 7871de483..835a228b3 100644
--- a/socat/Pkgfile
+++ b/socat/Pkgfile
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 # Depends on:  ncurses, openssl, readline
 
 name=socat
-version=1.7.1.1
+version=1.7.1.2
 release=1
-source=(http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/$name-$version.tar.gz)
+source=(http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/$name-$version.tar.bz2)
 
 build () {
     cd $name-$version