diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/default.nix
index 891c861c9fe5..658a2e37883a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/default.nix
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
 # if you update, also bump pythonPackages.libvirt or it will break
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "libvirt-${version}";
-  version = "2.2.0";
+  version = "2.5.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://libvirt.org/sources/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "168ng4k5sik2jiylrlpmqdj3g8hnmsmvh84y8nvfgc7fdbbah5g3";
+    sha256 = "07nbh6zhaxx5i1s1acnppf8rzkzb2ppgv35jw7grbbnnpzpzz7c1";
   };
 
   patches = [ ./build-on-bsd.patch ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index be63f65e6a6f..a3c42dd13bf6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -28326,13 +28326,13 @@ EOF
   };
 
   libvirt = let
-    version = "2.2.0";
+    version = "2.5.0";
   in assert version == pkgs.libvirt.version; pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     name = "libvirt-python-${version}";
 
     src = pkgs.fetchurl {
       url = "http://libvirt.org/sources/python/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0xpamw9gjmahvrbfkxjlplgdbhjr35vpp3a942bmw9qqy2rjwsxs";
+      sha256 = "1lanyrk4invs5j4jrd7yvy7g8kilihjbcrgs5arx8k3bs9x7izgl";
     };
 
     buildInputs = with self; [ python pkgs.pkgconfig pkgs.libvirt lxml ];