diff --git a/pkgs/misc/sndio/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/sndio/default.nix
index bd8e9671dda..2556e7d9d83 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/sndio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/sndio/default.nix
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "sndio-${version}";
-  version = "1.5.0";
+  version = "1.6.0";
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
   buildInputs = [ alsaLib ];
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://www.sndio.org/sndio-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0lyjb962w9qjkm3yywdywi7k2sxa2rl96v5jmrzcpncsfi201iqj";
+    sha256 = "1havdx3q4mipgddmd2bnygr1yh6y64567m1yqwjapkhsq550dq4r";
   };
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {