diff --git a/srcpkgs/php8.1/template b/srcpkgs/php8.1/template
index 16da7be3f32..9852f076d51 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/php8.1/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/php8.1/template
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'php8.1'
 pkgname=php8.1
-version=8.1.5
+version=8.1.6
 revision=1
 _php_version=8.1
 wrksrc="php-${version}"
-hostmakedepends="bison pkg-config apache-devel curl"
+hostmakedepends="bison pkg-config apache-devel"
 makedepends="apache-devel enchant2-devel freetds-devel freetype-devel gdbm-devel
  gmp-devel libcurl-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libmariadbclient-devel
  libsodium-devel libtidy5-devel libxslt-devel libzip-devel net-snmp-devel
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@ maintainer="Joel Beckmeyer <joel@beckmeyer.us>"
 license="PHP-3.01"
 homepage="https://www.php.net"
 distfiles="https://www.php.net/distributions/php-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=44d637627746082395d5d3d3d6ae7d71e780b82a8d55a0228887158c4316bf11
-
-fetch_cmd="curl -O"
+checksum=e847745fd66fc8c57fac993a609fefcded93fddccd225f0620a26bb5ae5753c3
 
 conf_files="/etc/php${_php_version}/php.ini"