diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
index e50625fa0e89..23f9e486ad9a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ with stdenv.lib;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "kakoune-unstable-${version}";
-  version = "2018.09.04";
+  version = "2018.10.27";
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     repo = "kakoune";
     owner = "mawww";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "08v55hh7whm6hx6a047gszh0h5g35k3r8r52aggv7r2ybzrrw6w1";
+    sha256 = "1w7jmq57h8gxxbzg0n3lgd6cci77xb9mziy6lr8330nzqc85zp9p";
   };
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ ncurses asciidoc docbook_xsl libxslt ];