diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/wolfssl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/wolfssl/default.nix
index c0c0218a318f..48178e774093 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/wolfssl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/wolfssl/default.nix
@@ -2,21 +2,33 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "wolfssl";
-  version = "4.5.0";
+  version = "4.6.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "wolfSSL";
     repo = "wolfssl";
     rev = "v${version}-stable";
-    sha256 = "138ppnwkqkfi7nnqpd0b93dqaph72ma65m9286bz2qzlis1x8r0v";
+    sha256 = "0hk3bnzznxj047gwxdxw2v3w6jqq47996m7g72iwj6c2ai9g6h4m";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = [ "--enable-all" ];
+  # almost same as Debian but for now using --enable-all instead of --enable-distro to ensure options.h gets installed
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-all --enable-pkcs11 --enable-tls13 --enable-base64encode" ];
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" "doc" "lib" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
 
+  postPatch = ''
+     # fix recursive cycle:
+     # build flags (including location of header files) are exposed in the
+     # public API of wolfssl, causing lib to depend on dev
+     substituteInPlace configure.ac \
+       --replace '#define LIBWOLFSSL_CONFIGURE_ARGS \"$ac_configure_args\"' ' '
+     substituteInPlace configure.ac \
+       --replace '#define LIBWOLFSSL_GLOBAL_CFLAGS \"$CPPFLAGS $AM_CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS $AM_CFLAGS\"' ' '
+  '';
+
+
   postInstall = ''
      # fix recursive cycle:
      # wolfssl-config points to dev, dev propagates bin