diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
index c54d8f304b6..981aa59369d 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "docbook-xsl-1.72.0";
+  name = "docbook-xsl-1.78.1";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://sourceforge/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "1cnrfgqz8pc9wnlgqjch2338ad7jki6d4h6b2fhaxn1a2201df5k";
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.78.1.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "0rxl013ncmz1n6ymk2idvx3hix9pdabk8xn01cpcv32wmfb753y9";
   };
 }