diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nftables/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nftables/default.nix
index 4b3e078cb57d..3557c1f05af4 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nftables/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nftables/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 , flex, bison, libmnl, libnftnl, gmp, readline }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "nftables-0.5";
+  name = "nftables-0.6";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/files/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1mhaw7ys7ma5786xyfccgar389jsj2zp7qmvghsgr96q6grxzdhz";
+    sha256 = "0bbcrn9nz75daic8bq7rspvcw3ck7l82vqcvkyyg4mhwbxjn5pny";
   };
 
   configureFlags = [