diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
index 029171fea2f..6aab0f45b38 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 { stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k, rdkafka, requests, avro3k, avro, futures, enum34 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  version = "1.3.0";
+  version = "1.4.2";
   pname = "confluent-kafka";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "4025ccddbc79443a4e2342de0d770f669558eb737fca2e7851558cd45f78ef78";
+    sha256 = "c2660807e5c1ecd723e280f76918794c3fd84595000c1e8de1f254f5d89a785c";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ rdkafka requests ] ++ (if isPy3k then [ avro3k ] else [ enum34 avro futures ]) ;