diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
index d2e806e43b90..ce847b81de63 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "ftfy";
 
-  version = "4.4.3";
+  version = "5.3.0";
   # ftfy v5 only supports python3. Since at the moment the only
   # packages that use ftfy are spacy and textacy which both support
   # python 2 and 3, they have pinned ftfy to the v4 branch.
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "152xdb56rhs1q4r0ck1n557sbphw7zq18r75a7kkd159ckdnc01w";
+    sha256 = "0zybd0ypxhb83bgdbwzi120n02328v4j0ndm6bgkb6wg2gah59qb";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ html5lib wcwidth ];