diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/default.nix b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/default.nix
index 1e424aca46b1..134a6f5307eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 , libxml2, glib}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "shared-mime-info-1.1";
+  name = "shared-mime-info-1.2";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0v70z5b6340jsjvdhf7brczpzq766wc1lsnjg9hc57ks2m5hjk8q";
+    sha256 = "0y5vi0vr6rbhvfzcfg57cfskn362bpvcpca9cy598nmr87i6lld5";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [