diff --git a/gnu/packages/code.scm b/gnu/packages/code.scm
index 86070acdf0..357125d047 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/code.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/code.scm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2013, 2015, 2018 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
-;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2019 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017, 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017, 2018 Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
@@ -113,14 +113,14 @@ highlighting your own code that seemed comprehensible when you wrote it.")
 (define-public global                             ; a global variable
   (package
     (name "global")
-    (version "6.6.2")
+    (version "6.6.3")
     (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/global/global-"
                                  version ".tar.gz"))
              (sha256
               (base32
-               "0zvi5vxwiq0dy8mq2cgs64m8harxs0fvkmsnvi0ayb0w608lgij3"))))
+               "0735pj47dnspf20n0j1px24p59nwjinlmlb2n32ln1hvdkprivnb"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (inputs `(("ncurses" ,ncurses)
               ("libltdl" ,libltdl)