diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cmark-gfm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cmark-gfm/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..52a02772268
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cmark-gfm/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake }:
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "cmark-gfm";
+  version = "0.29.0.gfm.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "github";
+    repo = "cmark-gfm";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0wfr3xwl4wria8vld71flv6vpsdj9aj81yqvj0azidyb8p229a1l";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  # tests load the library dynamically which for unknown reason failed
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ cyplo ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index fefdf4746ef..eaf998b0a36 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ in
 
   cmark = callPackage ../development/libraries/cmark { };
 
+  cmark-gfm = callPackage ../development/libraries/cmark-gfm { };
+
   cm256cc = callPackage ../development/libraries/cm256cc {  };
 
   conftest = callPackage ../development/tools/conftest { };