diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/universal-ctags/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/universal-ctags/default.nix
index b4710cc84060..903359f5c762 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/universal-ctags/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/universal-ctags/default.nix
@@ -2,17 +2,20 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "universal-ctags-${version}";
-  version = "2016-12-17";
+  version = "2017-01-08";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "universal-ctags";
     repo = "ctags";
-    rev = "3093f73e81cddbea5d122dccd4fd9a6323ebbbd3";
-    sha256 = "091359v3p865d39gchpc1x5qplf1s1y4nsph344ng5x1nkx44qsi";
+    rev = "9668032d8715265ca5b4ff16eb2efa8f1c450883";
+    sha256 = "0nwcf5mh3ba0g23zw7ym73pgpfdass412k2fy67ryr9vnc709jkj";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
 
+  # remove when https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/pull/1267 is merged
+  patches = [ ./sed-test.patch ];
+
   autoreconfPhase = ''
     ./autogen.sh --tmpdir
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/universal-ctags/sed-test.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/universal-ctags/sed-test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c44d699d79a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/universal-ctags/sed-test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- a/Tmain/sorted-help-message.d/run.sh	2017-01-10 11:20:51.515093465 +0100
++++ b/Tmain/sorted-help-message.d/run.sh	2017-01-10 11:17:56.639213720 +0100
+@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
+ extract_long_options()
+ {
+     sed -n '/Usage:/,$p'  | \
+-    sed -n 's/\(^  --[:alnum:][<>[:alnum:]_-]*\).*/\1/p'
++    sed -n 's/\(^  --[[:alnum:]][<>[:alnum:]_-]*\).*/\1/p'
+ }
+
+ extract_debug_options()
+