diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/default.nix
index cc782546a48..4dc8132805c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, xmlto, docbook_xml_dtd_412, docbook_xsl, libxml2 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "giflib-4.2.3";
+  name = "giflib-5.0.5";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://sourceforge/giflib/giflib-4.2.3.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "0rmp7ipzk42r841bggd7bfqk4p8qsssbp4wcck4qnz7p4rkxbj0a";
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/giflib/giflib-5.0.5.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "02c6pwll9pzw5fhg5gccx2ws56d70ylfryk21nv5lqhwdcv8lvb0";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ xmlto docbook_xml_dtd_412 docbook_xsl libxml2 ];