diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
index cd2ddf9da69a..589753cd1cb5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/confluent-kafka/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 { lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k, rdkafka, requests, avro3k, avro, futures, enum34 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  version = "1.5.0";
+  version = "1.6.0";
   pname = "confluent-kafka";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "9ac812006000887f76c95b8a33a9f0b65845bf072fbc54a42a1acffd34e41120";
+    sha256 = "8a9caabdb02e87cd65c7f10f689ba3f1a15f8774de455e96fa5fc56eecfee63c";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ rdkafka requests ] ++ (if isPy3k then [ avro3k ] else [ enum34 avro futures ]) ;