diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
index 841280d5730..118d2134620 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnutar-1.15.1";
+  name = "gnutar-1.16";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/tar-1.15.1.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "57da3c38f8e06589699548a34d5a5d07";
+    url = http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.16.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "d6fe544e834a8f9db6e6c7c2d38ec100";
   };
 }