diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.38.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.38.0.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..10058386c502
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.38.0.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, icu, expat, zlib, bzip2, python, version }:
+
+assert version == "1.38.0";
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "boost-1.38.0";
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://boost.org/";
+    description = "Boost C++ Library Collection";
+    license = "boost-license";
+  };
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_1_38_0.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1bs3b11y66xkdqjl38xb20hipx0pjr0h72fj6755655j6b4kz37z";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [icu expat zlib bzip2 python];
+  preConfigure =
+    "sed -e 's@^BJAM_CONFIG=\"\"@BJAM_CONFIG=\"-sEXPAT_INCLUDE=${expat}/include -sEXPAT_LIBPATH=${expat}/lib --layout=system variant=debug,release threading=single,multi link=shared,static\"@g' -i configure";
+  configureFlags = "--with-icu=${icu} --with-python=${python}";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index af9650797119..cc86a16b029c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2670,7 +2670,7 @@ let
   boostVersionChoice = version: selectVersion ../development/libraries/boost version {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv icu expat zlib bzip2 python;
   };
-  boost = boostVersionChoice "1.37.0";
+  boost = boostVersionChoice "1.38.0";
 
   buddy = import ../development/libraries/buddy {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
@@ -7705,7 +7705,7 @@ let
   };
 
   mozplugger = builderDefsPackage (import ../applications/networking/browsers/mozilla-plugins/mozplugger) {
-    inherit firefox; 
+    inherit firefox;
     inherit (xlibs) libX11 xproto;
   };