diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/pkgconfig-0.21.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/pkgconfig-0.21.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d57d3b756769
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/pkgconfig-0.21.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "pkgconfig-0.21";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "476f45fab1504aac6697aa7785f0ab91";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1c4999050a61..2cd3de8ba2ef 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
-  pkgconfig_latest = (import ../development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/pkgconfig-0.20.nix) {
+  pkgconfig_latest = (import ../development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/pkgconfig-0.21.nix) {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };