diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.34.1.nix
similarity index 84%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/boost/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.34.1.nix
index fe4cdcf03370..51ddf19025fd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.34.1.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, icu, zlib, bzip2, python}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, icu, zlib, bzip2, python, version}:
+
+assert version == "1.34.1";
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "boost-1.34.1";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.35.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.35.0.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..08540862c0f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.35.0.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, icu, zlib, bzip2, python, version}:
+
+assert version == "1.35.0";
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation
+{
+  name = "boost-1.35.0";
+  meta =
+  {
+    homepage = "http://boost.org/";
+    description = "Boost C++ Library Collection";
+    license = "boost-license";
+  };
+  src = fetchurl
+  {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_1_35_0.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "f8bf7368a22ccf2e2cf77048ab2129744be4c03f8488c76ad31c0aa229b280da";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [icu zlib bzip2 python];
+
+  preConfigure = "
+    sed -e 's@^BJAM_CONFIG=\"\"@BJAM_CONFIG=\"--layout=system variant=debug,release threading=single,multi link=shared,static\"@g' -i configure
+  ";
+
+  configureFlags = "--with-icu=${icu} --with-python=${python}";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8852f9e1dfad..086979a06b7a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2378,7 +2378,7 @@ let pkgs = rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
-  boost = import ../development/libraries/boost {
+  boost = selectVersion ../development/libraries/boost "1.35.0" {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv icu zlib bzip2 python;
   };
 
@@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@ let pkgs = rec {
       ''
         ensureDir $out
         ln -s $glibc64/* $out/
-        
+
         rm $out/lib $out/lib64
         ensureDir $out/lib
         ln -s $glibc64/lib/* $out/lib