diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/sublime-merge/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/sublime-merge/common.nix
index f20ebbeae3f..ad540c46411 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/sublime-merge/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/sublime-merge/common.nix
@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@ in let
         --set NIX_REDIRECTS ${builtins.concatStringsSep ":" redirects} \
         --set LOCALE_ARCHIVE "${glibcLocales.out}/lib/locale/locale-archive" \
         "''${gappsWrapperArgs[@]}"
+
+      # We need to replace the ssh-askpass-sublime executable because the default one
+      # will not function properly, in order to work it needs to pass an argv[0] to
+      # the sublime_merge binary, and the built-in version will will try to call the
+      # sublime_merge wrapper script which cannot pass through the original argv[0] to
+      # the sublime_merge binary. Thankfully the ssh-askpass-sublime functionality is
+      # very simple and can be replaced with a simple wrapper script.
+      rm $out/ssh-askpass-sublime
+      makeWrapper $out/.${primaryBinary}-wrapped $out/ssh-askpass-sublime \
+        --argv0 "/ssh-askpass-sublime"
     '';
   };
 in stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/sublime-merge/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/sublime-merge/default.nix
index a8fb944319c..7a0c0d1f1ed 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/sublime-merge/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/sublime-merge/default.nix
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ in {
   } {};
 
   sublime-merge-dev = common {
-    buildVersion = "2011";
-    sha256 = "0r5qqappaiicc4srk08az2vx42m7b6a75yn2ji5pv4w4085hlrzp";
+    buildVersion = "2022";
+    sha256 = "0fhxz6nx24wbspn7vfli3pvfv6fdbd591m619pvivig3scpidj61";
     dev = true;
   } {};
 }