diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 379153b7a1..84e43a62df 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>December 15th, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Update to xwayland-22.1.6 (security update). Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17404">#17404</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[pierre] - Update to lxml-4.9.2 (python module). Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17400">#17400</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 671676acbe..5c712ac024 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY xbitmaps-version             "1.1.2">
 <!ENTITY xcursor-themes-version       "1.0.6">
 <!ENTITY xkeyboard-config-version     "2.37">
-<!ENTITY xwayland-version             "22.1.5">
+<!ENTITY xwayland-version             "22.1.6">
 <!ENTITY xorg-server-version          "21.1.4">
 <!ENTITY twm-version                  "1.0.12">
 <!ENTITY xterm-version                "377">
diff --git a/x/installing/xwayland.xml b/x/installing/xwayland.xml
index 336b3b4739..0501a80dee 100644
--- a/x/installing/xwayland.xml
+++ b/x/installing/xwayland.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY xwayland-download-http "&xorg-download-http;/xserver/xwayland-&xwayland-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY xwayland-download-ftp  "&xorg-download-ftp;/xserver/xwayland-&xwayland-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY xwayland-md5sum        "fb0a4d8d924f701a12f6df5ca9673741">
+  <!ENTITY xwayland-md5sum        "9894362969bcf86f3c0943138f9552cd">
   <!ENTITY xwayland-size          "1.2 MB">
-  <!ENTITY xwayland-buildsize     "63 MB (add 357 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY xwayland-buildsize     "76 MB (add 357 MB for tests)">
   <!ENTITY xwayland-time          "0.2 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 1.0 SBU for tests, not including clone time)">
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