diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix
index 51e366ba29c..cf27249064f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, cmake, zlib, python, libssh2, openssl, curl, http-parser, libiconv }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
-  version = "0.24.6";
+  version = "0.25.1";
   name = "libgit2-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     name = "${name}.tar.gz";
     url = "https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/tarball/v${version}";
-    sha256 = "070jrv690bd5dq991lc32qfnai9ywvrjzsfgi3rcw6kw4l2ynxjr";
+    sha256 = "100bah8picqjzyhpw4wd7z5vyidcb8aggin50bhbpn607h8n8bml";
   };
 
   # TODO: `cargo` (rust's package manager) surfaced a serious bug in