diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrohttpd/1.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrohttpd/1.0.nix
index 16a4f2ed884e..944749f281c0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrohttpd/1.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrohttpd/1.0.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 { callPackage, fetchurl }:
 
 callPackage ./generic.nix (rec {
-  version = "1.0.1";
+  version = "1.0.2";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/libmicrohttpd/libmicrohttpd-${version}.tar.gz";
-    hash = "sha256-qJ4J/JtN403eGfT8tPqqHOECmbmQjbETK7+h3keIK5Q=";
+    hash = "sha256-3zJPzQg0F12rB0gxM5Atl3SmBb+imAJfaYgyiP0gqMc=";
   };
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrohttpd/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrohttpd/generic.nix
index 4ceb9afe9265..ea56e38c4fbf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrohttpd/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrohttpd/generic.nix
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     libintl
   ];
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   preCheck = ''
     # Since `localhost' can't be resolved in a chroot, work around it.
     sed -i -e 's/localhost/127.0.0.1/g' src/test*/*.[ch]