diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/geos/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/geos/default.nix
index be0edab3155d..4e7ce1d5ac85 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/geos/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/geos/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, python }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "geos-3.8.0";
+  name = "geos-3.8.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://download.osgeo.org/geos/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1mb2v9fy1gnbjhcgv0xny11ggfb17vkzsajdyibigwsxr4ylq4cr";
+    sha256 = "1xqpmr10xi0n9sj47fbwc89qb0yr9imh4ybk0jsxpffy111syn22";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;