diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
index f6fa41e33f8..d7a9fd2a0b0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "ftfy";
 
-  version = "5.5.1";
+  version = "5.6";
   # ftfy v5 only supports python3. Since at the moment the only
   # packages that use ftfy are spacy and textacy which both support
   # python 2 and 3, they have pinned ftfy to the v4 branch.
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "1ci6xrj4g01a97nymxpv9nj820nlmgzc4ybaz9k46i6bnxzpax7s";
+    sha256 = "1k4vr5rfa62yafwpmb4827n50pwb79if0vhg1y4yqbb0bv20jxbd";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [