diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB/default.nix b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB/default.nix
index 4566c04fcb6a..db94a3b07fe2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 {buildPerlPackage, fetchurl, db}:
 
 buildPerlPackage rec {
-  name = "BerkeleyDB-0.55";
+  name = "BerkeleyDB-0.61";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0kz40wqr7qwag43qnmkpri03cjnqwzb0kj0vc9aw9yz2qx0y2a3g";
+    sha256 = "0l65v301cz6a9dxcw6a4ps2mnr5zq358yn81favap6i092krggiz";
   };
 
   preConfigure = ''