diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cchardet/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cchardet/default.nix
index 1fb506682baf..5256d6050490 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cchardet/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cchardet/default.nix
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "cchardet";
-  version = "2.1.5";
+  version = "2.1.6";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "240efe3f255f916769458343840b9c6403cf3192720bc5129792cbcb88bf72fb";
+    sha256 = "1cs6y59qhbal8fgbyjk2lpjykh8kfjhq16clfssylsddb4hgnsmp";
   };
 
   checkInputs = [ nose ];
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   meta = {
     description = "High-speed universal character encoding detector";
-    homepage = https://github.com/PyYoshi/cChardet;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/PyYoshi/cChardet";
     license = lib.licenses.mpl11;
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ivan ];
   };