diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/paraview/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/paraview/default.nix
index 13a00991265..fdda8062a43 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/paraview/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/paraview/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, makeWrapper
 ,qtbase, qttools, python, libGLU_combined
 ,libXt, qtx11extras, qtxmlpatterns
+, mkDerivation
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "paraview";
-  version = "5.6.0";
+  version = "5.6.3";
 
   # fetching from GitHub instead of taking an "official" source
   # tarball because of missing submodules there
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     owner = "Kitware";
     repo = "ParaView";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1j13yfdgcv4yzfr449i4c8r4rs1c9zr6qd3igr4vv3ani8zixkzi";
+    sha256 = "0zcij59pg47c45gfddnpbin13w16smzhcbivzm1k4pg4366wxq1q";
     fetchSubmodules = true;
   };