diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/bcftools/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/bcftools/default.nix
index 1ad1647c70e5..539d7c224463 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/bcftools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/bcftools/default.nix
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "${pname}-${version}";
   pname = "bcftools";
-  version = "1.8";
+  version = "1.9";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/samtools/bcftools/releases/download/${version}/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1vgw2mwngq20c530zim52zvgmw1lci8rzl33pvh44xqk3xlzvjsa";
+    sha256 = "1j3h638i8kgihzyrlnpj82xg1b23sijibys9hvwari3fy7kd0dkg";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ htslib zlib bzip2 lzma curl perl python ];