diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/common.nix
index 5b4f631987f2..a93054a9aeb8 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/common.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 { lib, fetchFromGitHub }:
 rec {
-  version = "8.0.1655";
+  version = "8.1.0001";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "vim";
     repo = "vim";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1c6raqjaxgsjazn4l7wqg2cscd5i4bz9m2g2xhn9ba1injs7mps1";
+    sha256 = "056h9cyysyh6hqsr1s9xg94la554f56lwnpk87g013xmqf37bna6";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;