diff --git a/scripts/libx265/download.sh b/scripts/libx265/download.sh
index 2d2a680..acca872 100755
--- a/scripts/libx265/download.sh
+++ b/scripts/libx265/download.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 
 source ${SCRIPTS_DIR}/common-functions.sh
 
-LIBX265_VERSION=3.5
+LIBX265_VERSION=3.6
 
+#  For 3.6 (and presumably above) it is necessary to pass 'true' as the last argument
 downloadTarArchive \
   "libx265" \
-  "https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/downloads/x265_${LIBX265_VERSION}.tar.gz"
\ No newline at end of file
+  "https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/downloads/x265_${LIBX265_VERSION}.tar.gz" \
+  true
\ No newline at end of file