diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/pulseeffects/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/pulseeffects/default.nix
index 00c5af4422df..82dd0223bc80 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/pulseeffects/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/pulseeffects/default.nix
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@ let
   ];
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "pulseeffects";
-  version = "4.7.1";
+  version = "4.7.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "wwmm";
     repo = "pulseeffects";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1r1hk5zp2cgrwyqkvp8kg2dkbihdyx3ydzhmirkwya8jag9pwadd";
+    sha256 = "1yga25da5bpg12zkikp6dn4wqhn9f7r10awvjzfcz8s6w9xlz6rx";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.72.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.72.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..680afe8bcb87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.72.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ stdenv, callPackage, fetchurl, fetchpatch, ... } @ args:
+
+callPackage ./generic.nix (args // rec {
+  version = "1.72.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    #url = "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_1_72_0.tar.bz2";
+    urls = [
+      "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_1_72_0.tar.bz2"
+      "https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.72.0/source/boost_1_72_0.tar.bz2"
+    ];
+    # SHA256 from http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_72_0.html
+    sha256 = "59c9b274bc451cf91a9ba1dd2c7fdcaf5d60b1b3aa83f2c9fa143417cc660722";
+  };
+})
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0d0bde20ccd5..eba10401d5cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11176,7 +11176,8 @@ in
   boost16x = boost169;
   boost170 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.70.nix { };
   boost171 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.71.nix { };
-  boost17x = boost171;
+  boost172 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.72.nix { };
+  boost17x = boost172;
   boost = boost16x;
 
   boost_process = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost-process { };
@@ -15748,7 +15749,9 @@ in
 
   libpulseaudio = libpulseaudio-vanilla;
 
-  pulseeffects = callPackage ../applications/audio/pulseeffects { };
+  pulseeffects = callPackage ../applications/audio/pulseeffects {
+    boost = boost172;
+  };
 
   tomcat_connectors = callPackage ../servers/http/apache-modules/tomcat-connectors { };