diff --git a/pkgs/tools/X11/xdg-user-dirs/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/X11/xdg-user-dirs/default.nix
index 0af945317530..3e0680cac449 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/X11/xdg-user-dirs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/X11/xdg-user-dirs/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, libxslt, docbook_xsl, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "xdg-user-dirs-0.16";
+  name = "xdg-user-dirs-0.17";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1rp3c94hxjlfsryvwajklynfnrcvxplhwnjqc7395l89i0nb83vp";
+    sha256 = "13216b8rfkzak5k6bvpx6jvqv3cnbgpijnjwj8a8d3kq4cl0a1ra";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ libxslt docbook_xsl makeWrapper ];