diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libgpg-error/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libgpg-error/default.nix
index 8f41f24cae4a..586d48a8daa7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libgpg-error/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libgpg-error/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, gettext }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "libgpg-error-1.17";
+  name = "libgpg-error-1.18";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnupg/libgpg-error/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1dapxzxl1naghf342fwfc2w2f2c5hb9gr1a1s4n8dsqn26kybx1z";
+    sha256 = "0408v19h3h0q6w61g51hgbdg6cyw81nyzkh70qfprvsc3pkddwcz";
   };
 
   postPatch = "sed '/BUILD_TIMESTAMP=/s/=.*/=1970-01-01T00:01+0000/' -i ./configure";