diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bigstringaf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bigstringaf/default.nix
index 762e675d51c..0544ebbe685 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bigstringaf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bigstringaf/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildDunePackage, alcotest }:
+{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, buildDunePackage, alcotest, bigarray-compat }:
 
 buildDunePackage rec {
   pname = "bigstringaf";
-  version = "0.3.0";
+  version = "0.6.0";
 
   minimumOCamlVersion = "4.03";
 
@@ -10,16 +10,17 @@ buildDunePackage rec {
     owner = "inhabitedtype";
     repo = pname;
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "1yx6hv8rk0ldz1h6kk00rwg8abpfc376z00aifl9f5rn7xavpscs";
+    sha256 = "04b088vrqzmxsyan9f9nr8721bxip4b930cgvb5zkbbmrw3ylmwc";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ alcotest ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ bigarray-compat ];
   doCheck = true;
 
   meta = {
     description = "Bigstring intrinsics and fast blits based on memcpy/memmove";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.vbgl ];
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.vbgl ];
     inherit (src.meta) homepage;
   };
 }