diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/gitea/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/gitea/default.nix
index cc36dc9ff525d7..dce52b559939c4 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/gitea/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/gitea/default.nix
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ with lib;
 
 buildGoPackage rec {
   pname = "gitea";
-  version = "1.13.5";
+  version = "1.13.6";
 
+  # not fetching directly from the git repo, because that lacks several vendor files for the web UI
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/download/v${version}/gitea-src-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "08c5gp4qp65mnq4ggzfmyc7n3zcp0js86fz4nj5p249zs9vn1ypd";
+    sha256 = "1f0fsqcmmqygv0r796ddr2fjhh333i9nr0cqk9x2b2kbs1z264vf";
   };
 
   unpackPhase = ''