diff --git a/pkgs/tools/X11/xdg-user-dirs/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/X11/xdg-user-dirs/default.nix
index 8829427b79c..0af94531753 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/X11/xdg-user-dirs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/X11/xdg-user-dirs/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, libxslt, docbook_xsl, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "xdg-user-dirs-0.15";
-  
+  name = "xdg-user-dirs-0.16";
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "20b4a751f41d0554bce3e0ce5e8d934be98cc62d48f0b90a894c3e1916552786";
+    sha256 = "1rp3c94hxjlfsryvwajklynfnrcvxplhwnjqc7395l89i0nb83vp";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ libxslt docbook_xsl makeWrapper ];