diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB/default.nix b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB/default.nix
index a6309d028e8c..01f698da2326 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 {buildPerlPackage, fetchurl, db4}:
 
 buildPerlPackage rec {
-  name = "BerkeleyDB-0.36";
+  name = "BerkeleyDB-0.54";
   
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "07xf50riarb60l1h6m2dqmql8q5dij619712fsgw7ach04d8g3z1";
+    sha256 = "010e66d0034b93a8397c600da320611149aef7861eaf1f93b95e49ae37b825b8";
   };
 
   preConfigure = ''