diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
index d5d022c8063f..fa780b11f688 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 {stdenv, fetchgit, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, pcre, zlib, lzma}:
 
-let release = "0.19.2"; in
+let release = "0.21.0"; in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "silver-searcher-${release}";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.git";
     rev = "refs/tags/${release}";
-    sha256 = "b6993e077f650eb0976cbc924640665fa9b2499a899ecba5a6cad5cf9addfdff";
+    sha256 = "bd49c6cadabeaf7bde130e5d2d0083367ae2d19cfedb40e45f5bb1ff9f4a3e51";
   };
 
   NIX_LDFLAGS = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isLinux "-lgcc_s";