diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 610449e9d5..68502e6b45 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ bin/podman.cross.%: .gopathok
 # Update nix/nixpkgs.json its latest stable commit
 .PHONY: nixpkgs
 nixpkgs:
-	@nix run -f channel:nixos-20.03 nix-prefetch-git -c nix-prefetch-git \
+	@nix run -f channel:nixos-20.09 nix-prefetch-git -c nix-prefetch-git \
 		--no-deepClone https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs > nix/nixpkgs.json
 
 # Build statically linked binary
diff --git a/nix/default.nix b/nix/default.nix
index a1a8c5287c..13b4585ea1 100644
--- a/nix/default.nix
+++ b/nix/default.nix
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ let
     doCheck = false;
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
     outputs = [ "out" ];
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ bash git go-md2man installShellFiles makeWrapper pkg-config which ];
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ bash gitMinimal go-md2man installShellFiles makeWrapper pkg-config which ];
     buildInputs = [ glibc glibc.static gpgme libassuan libgpgerror libseccomp libapparmor libselinux ];
     prePatch = ''
-      export CFLAGS='-static'
+      export CFLAGS='-static -pthread'
       export LDFLAGS='-s -w -static-libgcc -static'
       export EXTRA_LDFLAGS='-s -w -linkmode external -extldflags "-static -lm"'
       export BUILDTAGS='static netgo osusergo exclude_graphdriver_btrfs exclude_graphdriver_devicemapper seccomp apparmor selinux'
diff --git a/nix/nixpkgs.json b/nix/nixpkgs.json
index 81a2f974c4..8e001f6b2f 100644
--- a/nix/nixpkgs.json
+++ b/nix/nixpkgs.json
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 {
   "url": "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs",
-  "rev": "6e089d30148953df7abb3a1167169afc7848499c",
-  "date": "2020-11-05T09:56:30+01:00",
-  "sha256": "0ydqjkz7payl16psx445jwh6dc6lgbvj2w11xin1dqvbpcp03jcy",
-  "fetchSubmodules": false
+  "rev": "6ea2fd15d881006b41ea5bbed0f76bffcd85f9f9",
+  "date": "2020-12-20T13:26:58+10:00",
+  "path": "/nix/store/kyw1ackbp9qh1jzlzwmjvi5i3541ym5z-nixpkgs",
+  "sha256": "0kgqmw4ki10b37530jh912sn49x3gay5cnmfr8yz2yp8nvkrk236",
+  "fetchSubmodules": false,
+  "deepClone": false,
+  "leaveDotGit": false
 }