diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/sdcc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/sdcc/default.nix
index 1a51f087a28f..fe293fbc4b8d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/sdcc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/sdcc/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, bison, flex, boost, gputils ? null }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "3.3.0";
+  version = "3.4.0";
   name = "sdcc-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/sdcc/sdcc-src-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1pj4hssvq34vbryvxc2jpp2b14cgxp695ygwiax6b7l2kvr62gw7";
+    sha256 = "1yavxffqdfhdyabdza936xxh9wq4cfwa385g26gjapsdp5ighsng";
   };
 
   # TODO: remove this comment when gputils != null is tested
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 514a3f09bfba..d695253fbbf2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3153,9 +3153,7 @@ let
   scala_2_10 = callPackage ../development/compilers/scala { };
   scala = scala_2_10;
 
-  sdcc = callPackage ../development/compilers/sdcc {
-    boost = boost149; # sdcc 3.2.0 fails to build with boost 1.53
-  };
+  sdcc = callPackage ../development/compilers/sdcc { };
 
   smlnj = callPackage_i686 ../development/compilers/smlnj { };