diff --git a/tools/featurecounts/featurecounts.xml b/tools/featurecounts/featurecounts.xml
index 26b4d3d4298..ca8ca45ebdc 100644
--- a/tools/featurecounts/featurecounts.xml
+++ b/tools/featurecounts/featurecounts.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <tool id="featurecounts" name="featureCounts" version="@TOOL_VERSION@+galaxy@VERSION_SUFFIX@" profile="20.09">
     <description>Measure gene expression in RNA-Seq experiments from SAM or BAM files</description>
     <macros>
-        <token name="@TOOL_VERSION@">2.0.3</token>
-        <token name="@VERSION_SUFFIX@">2</token>
+        <token name="@TOOL_VERSION@">2.0.6</token>
+        <token name="@VERSION_SUFFIX@">0</token>
 
         <macro name="conditional_gff_opions">
             <param name="gff_feature_type" type="text" value="exon" argument="-t" label="GFF feature type filter" help="Specify the feature type. Only rows which have the matched matched feature type in the provided GTF annotation file will be included for read counting. `exon' by default."/>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     </xrefs>
     <requirements>
         <requirement type="package" version="@TOOL_VERSION@">subread</requirement>
-        <requirement type="package" version="1.16.1">samtools</requirement>
+        <requirement type="package" version="1.21">samtools</requirement>
     </requirements>
 
     <version_command>featureCounts -v 2&gt;&amp;1 | grep .</version_command>