diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/pigz/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/pigz/default.nix
index e7a1df5fd6cd..3faab62a1e8e 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/pigz/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/pigz/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,24 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, zlib, util-linux }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, zlib, util-linux }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "pigz";
-  version = "2.6";
+  version = "2.7";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
       owner = "madler";
-      repo = "${pname}";
+      repo = pname;
       rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
-      sha256 = "146qkmzi199xwmmf6bllanqfyl702fm1rnad8cd5r5yyrp5ks115";
+      sha256 = "sha256-RYp3vRwlI6S/lcib+3t7qLYFWv11GUnj1Cmxm9eaVro=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # needed to build the pigzn test binary
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/madler/pigz/commit/67fd6e436f4f479aead529a719e24d6864cf1dfa.patch";
+      sha256 = "sha256-FkzLYob/WIVIB7eh03cdzpLy6SzoHLqEMsWyHdMTjbU=";
+    })
+  ];
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   buildInputs = [ zlib ] ++ lib.optional stdenv.isLinux util-linux;