diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/webkitgtk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/webkitgtk/default.nix
index 8f8551ac9b6..cad5185b0d7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/webkitgtk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/webkitgtk/default.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "webkitgtk-2.2.4";
+  name = "webkitgtk-2.4.0";
 
   meta = {
     description = "Web content rendering engine, GTK+ port";
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://webkitgtk.org/releases/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0x2d9hds5yazwdakkhrh3dk5qxscb169imi056q2qq53zhdyw6jy";
+    sha256 = "1fyz6ysw7npy5wa7m1zg05zrj0gi0wdlpjbqix03iq4ym36pflnw";
   };
 
   patches = [ ./webcore-svg-libxml-cflags.patch ];