diff --git a/pkgs/applications/search/recoll/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/search/recoll/default.nix
index 4274f73c7e56..0eb4632a4c00 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/search/recoll/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/search/recoll/default.nix
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
 assert stdenv.system != "powerpc-linux";
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  ver = "1.18.1";
+  ver = "1.20.6";
   name = "recoll-${ver}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0cyrkx5aza3485avb2kxc6cbsqqrb32l1kq8ravr9d828331v84f";
+    sha256 = "0ympk2w21cxfvysyx96p0npsa54csfc84cicpi8nsj1qp824zxwq";
   };
 
   configureFlags = [ "--with-inotify" ];
@@ -47,15 +47,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     #substituteInPlace  $f --replace untex         ${untex}/bin/untex
     #substituteInPlace  $f --replace wpd2html      ${wpd2html}/bin/wpd2html
 
-  meta = {
-    description = "finds keywords inside documents as well as file names";
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A full-text search tool";
     longDescription = ''
       Recoll is an Xapian frontend that can search through files, archive
       members, email attachments. 
     '';
     homepage = http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ jcumming ];
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jcumming ];
   };
 }