diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/x265/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/x265/default.nix
index 29d7ddf1fdc9..418829e7af8a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/x265/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/x265/default.nix
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "x265-${version}";
-  version = "2.5";
+  version = "2.6";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     urls = [
       "http://get.videolan.org/x265/x265_${version}.tar.gz"
       "https://github.com/videolan/x265/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
     ];
-    sha256 = "05rxbnfcc8yl05q3xqkl1kk90k7zn5ih305r46dxnzjaa2djalrf";
+    sha256 = "1gyd94jkwdii9308m07nymsbxrmrcl81c0j8i10zhslr2mj07w0v";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;