diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml
index 29b25275383..9f80dcc2934 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml
@@ -430,6 +430,13 @@ following incompatible changes:</para>
       and <literal>stopJob</literal> provide an optional <literal>$user</literal> argument for that purpose.
     </para>
   </listitem>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Enabling bash completion on NixOS, <literal>programs.bash.enableCompletion</literal>, will now also enable
+      completion for the Nix command line tools by installing the
+      <link xlink:href="https://github.com/hedning/nix-bash-completions">nix-bash-completions</link> package.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </section>
diff --git a/nixos/modules/programs/bash/bash.nix b/nixos/modules/programs/bash/bash.nix
index 1abdb4973a4..1a62f04972d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/programs/bash/bash.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/programs/bash/bash.nix
@@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ in
       "/share/bash-completion"
     ];
 
+    environment.systemPackages = optional cfg.enableCompletion
+      pkgs.nix-bash-completions;
+
     environment.shells =
       [ "/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash"
         "/var/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash"
diff --git a/pkgs/shells/nix-bash-completions/default.nix b/pkgs/shells/nix-bash-completions/default.nix
index fb6fa24ac33..c8582366d1a 100644
--- a/pkgs/shells/nix-bash-completions/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/shells/nix-bash-completions/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 { stdenv, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "0.6.3";
+  version = "0.6.4";
   name = "nix-bash-completions-${version}";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "hedning";
     repo = "nix-bash-completions";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1zmk9f53xpwk5j6qqisjlddgm2fr68p1q6pn3wa14bd777lranhj";
+    sha256 = "1kdysrfc8dx24q438wj3aisn64g2w5yb6mx91qa385p5hz7b1yz2";
   };
 
   # To enable lazy loading via. bash-completion we need a symlink to the script