diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 59dfde790ae0..1bac52117431 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -18839,12 +18839,12 @@ in {
   };
 
   powerline = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    rev  = "2.1.4";
+    rev  = "2.4";
     name = "powerline-${rev}";
     src = pkgs.fetchurl {
       url    = "https://github.com/powerline/powerline/archive/${rev}.tar.gz";
       name   = "${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0gnh5yyackmqcphiympan48dm5lc834yzspss1lp4g1wq3vpyraf";
+      sha256 = "12fp3cpwgpkxcj4mfjdpsmf1h0b8pqy1icb07jdivz9kw18h0184";
     };
 
     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.git pkgs.mercurial pkgs.bazaar self.psutil self.pygit2 ];