diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
index 183ac56372..6c97e5989a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
 ;;; Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
-;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch>
@@ -2720,14 +2720,14 @@ and is very extensible.")
 (define-public python-cython
   (package
     (name "python-cython")
-    (version "0.28.4")
+    (version "0.29.5")
     (source
      (origin
        (method url-fetch)
        (uri (pypi-uri "Cython" version))
        (sha256
         (base32
-         "0imw9s2rbrh32clbl10csnwmig9p3nzkrd2baxxxfmnrsc42pb3n"))))
+         "1wfb68g115gmf3mv23w0hh972b0ll85gpb92ci28x6h997br0llx"))))
     (build-system python-build-system)
     ;; we need the full python package and not just the python-wrapper
     ;; because we need libpython3.3m.so