diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/tig/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/tig/default.nix
index 59354598d00..424694d7262 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/tig/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/tig/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ncurses, asciidoc, xmlto, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_45
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ncurses, asciidoc, xmlto, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_45, fetchpatch
 , readline, makeWrapper, git, libiconv, autoreconfHook, findXMLCatalogs, pkgconfig
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "tig";
-  version = "2.4.1";
+  version = "2.5.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "jonas";
     repo = pname;
     rev = "${pname}-${version}";
-    sha256 = "0i26yfn2vjgsg1kdvhhv55jwzds7ih7cnad1xqvilqm83zh47ksd";
+    sha256 = "1lrzgnq8ywq28qd4xyd0y5qfv3j25ra81lcbdqqfywasl8lwz3lf";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper autoreconfHook asciidoc xmlto docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_45 findXMLCatalogs pkgconfig ];
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       rm -f contrib/config.make-*
   '';
 
+  patches = [
+    # Fix memory leak. Remove with the next release
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/jonas/tig/commit/6202c6032f17438a2facb23f02e330b9d0566d9d.patch";
+      sha256 = "15zn8hw9y7bqa1np4mj0qnm2z86nif7qwh7wc4vgy2rwxdil85bd";
+    })
+  ];
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   installPhase = ''