diff --git a/packaging/win32/defaults.sh b/packaging/win32/defaults.sh
index 499d27f30f..b340575436 100644
--- a/packaging/win32/defaults.sh
+++ b/packaging/win32/defaults.sh
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ set_default GUILE_DIR $GLOBAL_DIR\\guile
 set_default OPENSSL_URL "http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8j.tar.gz"
 set_default OPENSSL_DIR $GLOBAL_DIR\\openssl
 
-set_default GNUTLS_URL "http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.1.zip"
+GNUTLS_VERSION="2.8.6"
+set_default GNUTLS_URL "http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-${GNUTLS_VERSION}.zip"
 set_default GNUTLS_DIR $GLOBAL_DIR\\gnutls
 
 set_default MINGW_UTILS_URL "$SF_MIRROR/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packaging/win32/install-impl.sh b/packaging/win32/install-impl.sh
index 6a55a90111..abbad0514b 100755
--- a/packaging/win32/install-impl.sh
+++ b/packaging/win32/install-impl.sh
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ function inst_gnutls() {
     add_to_env ${_GNUTLS_UDIR}/lib/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG_PATH
     add_to_env "-I${_GNUTLS_UDIR}/include" GNUTLS_CPPFLAGS
     add_to_env "-L${_GNUTLS_UDIR}/lib" GNUTLS_LDFLAGS
-    if quiet ${PKG_CONFIG} --exists gnutls
+    if quiet ${PKG_CONFIG} --exact-version=${GNUTLS_VERSION} gnutls
     then
         echo "GNUTLS already installed. skipping."
     else