diff --git a/Formula/gdal.rb b/Formula/gdal.rb
index 6f7cfa6a8a9..baac18dfca3 100644
--- a/Formula/gdal.rb
+++ b/Formula/gdal.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 require 'formula'
 
 class Gdal <Formula
-  url 'http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.7.1.tar.gz'
+  url 'http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.7.2.tar.gz'
   homepage 'http://www.gdal.org/'
-  md5 '5a90be385613730cc12fcf3f59b89de6'
+  md5 '05351f8cb61761ae579667e24a297fe6'
 
   depends_on 'libtiff'
   depends_on 'giflib'