diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 930a235d87..bf699119db 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>February 16th, 2024</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to x265-20240216. Addresses
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18520">#18520</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to x264-20240216. Addresses
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18520">#18520</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml b/multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml
index a330239bfe..5266d7cf42 100644
--- a/multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml
+++ b/multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY x265-download-http "&sources-anduin-http;/x265/x265-&x265-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY x265-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY x265-md5sum        "e735837f5e3fa95889e0a72eca39fccf">
+  <!ENTITY x265-md5sum        "71144c71b399d7b3d55c9dc1e2377e10">
   <!ENTITY x265-size          "1.0 MB">
-  <!ENTITY x265-buildsize     "52 MB">
-  <!ENTITY x265-time          "0.9 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
+  <!ENTITY x265-buildsize     "38 MB">
+  <!ENTITY x265-time          "0.5 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="x265" xreflabel="x265-&x265-version;">
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@
       <ulink url="https://github.com/numactl/numactl">numactl</ulink>
     </para>
 
-
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 7cb1838a11..c9e2225111 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@
 <!ENTITY v4l-utils-version            "1.26.1">
 <!ENTITY wireplumber-version          "0.4.17">
 <!ENTITY x264-version                 "20240216">
-<!ENTITY x265-version                 "20230215">
+<!ENTITY x265-version                 "20240216">
 <!ENTITY xine-lib-version             "1.2.13">
 <!ENTITY xvid-version                 "1.3.7">