diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
index 6a468bd67eb..16bc3c22cb4 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ with stdenv.lib;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "kakoune-unwrapped";
-  version = "2020.01.16";
+  version = "2020.08.04";
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     repo = "kakoune";
     owner = "mawww";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "16v6z1nzj54j19fraxhb18jdby4zfs1br91gxpg9s2s4nsk0km0b";
+    sha256 = "1cgkis8bywy5k8k6j4i3prikpmhh1p6zyklliyxbc89mj64kvx4s";
   };
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ ncurses asciidoc docbook_xsl libxslt ];