diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.40.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.41.0.nix
similarity index 90%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.40.0.nix
rename to pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.41.0.nix
index 855c20f9d9f..7b1166fb656 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.40.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.41.0.nix
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ let
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "boost-1.40.0";
+  name = "boost-1.41.0";
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://boost.org/";
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   };
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_1_40_0.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "032k85lfqg9zlx7m4acqy8x4r8950llnxprzjaj6fw2qkcilmkrn";
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_1_41_0.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "09n7bjac2nlp7c8khpml2mq4qm33w2dn4ksb50c37wga95klxy8y";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [icu expat zlib bzip2 python];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e5481bbf61c..2fdbee97198 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3013,7 +3013,7 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv icu expat zlib bzip2 python;
   };
 
-  boost = makeOverridable (import ../development/libraries/boost/1.40.0.nix) {
+  boost = makeOverridable (import ../development/libraries/boost/1.41.0.nix) {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv icu expat zlib bzip2 python;
   };