diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/qalculate-gtk/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/qalculate-gtk/default.nix
index 09ead07dc09..ba7ac5505e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/qalculate-gtk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/qalculate-gtk/default.nix
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "qalculate-gtk";
-  version = "3.15.0";
+  version = "3.16.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "qalculate";
     repo = "qalculate-gtk";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1w0r9vv1h3zbfdvk8965g5plfkz5clf81riil5b394ms9vsw0bx5";
+    sha256 = "1vqzrh5zxwfvih6c3lak0wkkw6bajl88xzl1zk84gxsk9wdymrk4";
   };
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libqalculate/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libqalculate/default.nix
index bc142b0a57c..b61bcd03027 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libqalculate/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libqalculate/default.nix
@@ -3,19 +3,20 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libqalculate";
-  version = "3.14.0";
+  version = "3.16.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "qalculate";
     repo = "libqalculate";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1j4sr9s7152xmci677pnz64spv8s3ia26fbp5cqx8ydv7swlivh2";
+    sha256 = "0nrf03q3qrsvxf6kjpv69l49yfal79834a3jv75mzi6y674ach9g";
   };
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" "doc" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ intltool pkgconfig autoreconfHook doxygen ];
   buildInputs = [ curl gettext libiconv readline ];
+  configureFlags = ["--with-readline=${readline.dev}"];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libxml2 mpfr icu ];
   enableParallelBuilding = true;