diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
index 83a89cfb602..adc8d9ec486 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 {stdenv, fetchgit, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, pcre, zlib, lzma}:
 
-let release = "0.18.1"; in
+let release = "0.19.1"; in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "silver-searcher-${release}";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.git";
     rev = "refs/tags/${release}";
-    sha256 = "bf2c8f3c68895e0ee00d373c1d87201e806b413bb28373ee168e375f2a095ec5";
+    sha256 = "1km3ap74mls7vkp6si4f302zb1ifmldipjyfw2z9akqpvr3n44p9";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig pcre zlib lzma ];