diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix
index 885e4310a59..9743b73345c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ assert compressionSupport -> neon.compressionSupport;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
-  version = "1.7.8";
+  version = "1.7.9";
 
   name = "subversion-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://apache/subversion//${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha1 = "12c7d8d5414bba74c9777c4d1dae74f152df63c2";
+    sha1 = "453757bae78a800997559f2232483ab99238ec1e";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ zlib apr aprutil sqlite ]