diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
index eb337573018..de9d918deeb 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
@@ -10,17 +10,17 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   name = "youtube-dl-${version}";
-  version = "2015.05.29";
+  version = "2015.08.16.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0lgxir2i5ipplg57wk8gnbbsdrk7szqnyb1bxr97f3h0rbm4dfij";
+    sha256 = "04g78anvy519pj8m8ys1ifmnmp1x3i9bw3afwqjch71n9f77papy";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ makeWrapper zip pandoc ];
 
   # Ensure ffmpeg is available in $PATH for post-processing & transcoding support.
-  postInstall = stdenv.lib.optionalString (ffmpeg != null) 
+  postInstall = stdenv.lib.optionalString (ffmpeg != null)
     ''wrapProgram $out/bin/youtube-dl --prefix PATH : "${ffmpeg}/bin"'';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {