diff --git a/package/putty/putty.hash b/package/putty/putty.hash
index c691a4f975..05c1a9eea6 100644
--- a/package/putty/putty.hash
+++ b/package/putty/putty.hash
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Hashes from: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.78/{sha1,sha256,sha512}sums
-sha1  198f01db6bea708e480fb11dd23026eda7b3f49f  putty-0.78.tar.gz
-sha256  274e01bcac6bd155dfd647b2f18f791b4b17ff313753aa919fcae2e32d34614f  putty-0.78.tar.gz
-sha512  d7a3e2eabd5f1f65fc0f3f1ee0789c30fbe891b57f63ddeac0b92befcb6aecd4a748f04a21c76ee42d992deb77c2e1a0454a71cc620ef26fbf23af660bd84bb5  putty-0.78.tar.gz
+# Hashes from: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.79/{sha1,sha256,sha512}sums
+sha1  c40c3ce9fd334c40e64c6b33ee7e1096dad52701  putty-0.79.tar.gz
+sha256  428cc8666fbb938ebf4ac9276341980dcd70de395b33164496cf7995ef0ef0d8  putty-0.79.tar.gz
+sha512  4f10f870b229c89e928921d3b350955ce1c1170a062e7943d9cc8dbd83389d82a9b844623541605f0db5a429d545c2d188bf8e384c6515466fae69b216120983  putty-0.79.tar.gz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  7b10c93f0d582e820a9e6f8c6abbcff54192e41e60644f4d09b96b14fdbc74f8  LICENCE
diff --git a/package/putty/putty.mk b/package/putty/putty.mk
index 82b7464bb4..d3c8d923f0 100644
--- a/package/putty/putty.mk
+++ b/package/putty/putty.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PUTTY_VERSION = 0.78
+PUTTY_VERSION = 0.79
 PUTTY_SITE = http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/$(PUTTY_VERSION)
 PUTTY_LICENSE = MIT
 PUTTY_LICENSE_FILES = LICENCE