1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/nettle.scm b/gnu/packages/nettle.scm
index 6a0b6ef40a..e4dbadecce 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/nettle.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/nettle.scm
@@ -27,19 +27,19 @@
 (define-public nettle
   (package
     (name "nettle")
-    (version "2.6")
+    (version "2.7")
     (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/nettle/nettle-"
                                  version ".tar.gz"))
              (sha256
               (base32
-               "0mminj3fg0vba8qx4q6dbf0xz6fskamli7z2r8rci5xrcd7n5pv0"))))
+               "1mnl5i1136p47lrklm0mhnnv3gjakza385zvxz12qf057h9ym562"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (inputs `(("m4" ,m4)))
     (propagated-inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp)))
     (home-page "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/")
-    (synopsis "GNU Nettle, a cryptographic library")
+    (synopsis "C library for low-level crytographic functionality")
     (description
      "Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily
 in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented