diff --git a/tools/update-nixpkgs b/tools/update-nixpkgs
index 3d0f18f7cc617a02c09cb8590874ea178100964e..94c14e9ae33038f725b8cca8682f7f33d8777a4a 100755
--- a/tools/update-nixpkgs
+++ b/tools/update-nixpkgs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from ps_tools import get_url_hash
 # We pass this to builtins.fetchTarball which only supports sha256
 HASH_TYPE = "sha256"
 
-DEFAULT_CHANNEL = "nixos-24.05"
+DEFAULT_CHANNEL = "nixos-24.11"
 CHANNEL_URL_TEMPLATE = "https://channels.nixos.org/{channel}/nixexprs.tar.xz"