diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/default.nix
index 9d7405a64f07..132b66a7d28d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/default.nix
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ libX11, graphicsmagick, pcre, liblapack, texLive, pkgconfig, mesa, fltk,
 fftw, fftwSinglePrec, zlib, curl, qrupdate }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "octave-3.4.3";
+  name = "octave-3.6.1";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/octave/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0j61kpfbv8l8rw3r9cwcmskvvav3q2f6plqdq3lnb153jg61klcl";
+    sha256 = "1xmd9rqpwzn6z808i3brw1w9lh083vpjg046cj4gg3qdazkkw1zq";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ gfortran readline ncurses perl flex texinfo qhull libX11