diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/arrow-cpp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/arrow-cpp/default.nix
index 7f3896f41be5..fe06a64bcf56 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/arrow-cpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/arrow-cpp/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { stdenv, lib, fetchurl, fetchFromGitHub, fixDarwinDylibNames
 , autoconf, boost, brotli, cmake, flatbuffers, gflags, glog, gtest, lz4
-, perl, python3, rapidjson, re2, snappy, thrift, utf8proc, which, xsimd
+, perl, python3, rapidjson, re2, snappy, thrift, tzdata , utf8proc, which
 , zlib, zstd
 , enableShared ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 }:
@@ -9,25 +9,25 @@ let
   arrow-testing = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "apache";
     repo = "arrow-testing";
-    rev = "6d98243093c0b36442da94de7010f3eacc2a9909";
-    hash = "sha256-n57Fuz2k6sX1o3vYBmC41eRKGnyt9+YL5r3WTHHRRzw=";
+    rev = "a60b715263d9bbf7e744527fb0c084b693f58043";
+    hash = "sha256-Dz1dCV0m5Y24qzXdVaqrZ7hK3MRSb4GF0PXrjMAsjZU=";
   };
 
   parquet-testing = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "apache";
     repo = "parquet-testing";
-    rev = "ddd898958803cb89b7156c6350584d1cda0fe8de";
-    hash = "sha256-gK04mj1Fuhkf82NDMrXplFa+cr/3Ij7I9VnYfinuJlg=";
+    rev = "d4d485956a643c693b5549e1a62d52ca61c170f1";
+    hash = "sha256-GmOAS8gGhzDI0WzORMkWHRRUl/XBwmNen2d3VefZxxc=";
   };
 
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "arrow-cpp";
-  version = "5.0.0";
+  version = "6.0.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url =
       "mirror://apache/arrow/arrow-${version}/apache-arrow-${version}.tar.gz";
-    hash = "sha256-w7QxPspZTCD3Yag2cZchqvB2AAGviWuuw6tkQg/5kQo=";
+    hash = "sha256-adJo+egtPr71la0b3IPUywKyDBgZRqaGMfZkXXwfepA=";
   };
   sourceRoot = "apache-arrow-${version}/cpp";
 
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   preConfigure = ''
     patchShebangs build-support/
+    substituteInPlace "src/arrow/vendored/datetime/tz.cpp" \
+      --replace "/usr/share/zoneinfo" "${tzdata}/share/zoneinfo"
   '';
 
   cmakeFlags = [
@@ -117,7 +119,10 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH=@loader_path/../lib" # needed for tools executables
   ] ++ lib.optional (!stdenv.isx86_64) "-DARROW_USE_SIMD=OFF";
 
-  ARROW_XSIMD_URL = xsimd.src;
+  ARROW_XSIMD_URL = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xsimd/archive/aeec9c872c8b475dedd7781336710f2dd2666cb2.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "09kvl962c6b0wnb7pb2n9dhvkflzwalgq6gwwi8628fgi9n1x10a";
+  };
 
   doInstallCheck = true;
   ARROW_TEST_DATA =
@@ -148,10 +153,10 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A  cross-language development platform for in-memory data";
+    description = "A cross-language development platform for in-memory data";
     homepage = "https://arrow.apache.org/";
     license = licenses.asl20;
     platforms = platforms.unix;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ tobim veprbl ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ tobim veprbl cpcloud ];
   };
 }