diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
index 9e4f4072bf6a..8d992f71f33a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 { stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k, rdkafka, requests, avro3k, avro, futures, enum34 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  version = "1.0.1";
+  version = "1.2.0";
   pname = "confluent-kafka";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "04bsnyhldcvscdj0dg3hm5k27vmhfi9k6bwz963sd3q2h7g9k6kg";
+    sha256 = "1nn8z7ggjj04v97jm33dxh2cv2azy4xi1hwkj9qwbbc68vasc3cp";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ rdkafka requests ] ++ (if isPy3k then [ avro3k ] else [ enum34 avro futures ]) ;