diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bbefeafad9..aae9f7c6b6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Rapaselet is a delta formed by the Rapaätno river between the Bielloriehppe mas
 - [#1216](https://github.com/nf-core/sarek/pull/1216) - Better test coverage for variant calling `*_all` subworkflows
 - [#1217](https://github.com/nf-core/sarek/pull/1217) - Fix `groupTuple` statement for mutect2 tumor_only subworkflows
 - [#1220](https://github.com/nf-core/sarek/pull/1220) - Fix channel and meta logic for `joint_mutect2` feature
+- [#1224](https://github.com/nf-core/sarek/pull/1224) - Update BCFTOOLS_SORT module with `--temp-dir .` added as option, which was required for Singularity
 - [#1225](https://github.com/nf-core/sarek/pull/1225) - Better test coverage for all tests
 
 ### Dependencies
diff --git a/modules.json b/modules.json
index 6f13ad15dd..290bb1c2a0 100644
--- a/modules.json
+++ b/modules.json
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
                     },
                     "bcftools/sort": {
                         "branch": "master",
-                        "git_sha": "911696ea0b62df80e900ef244d7867d177971f73",
+                        "git_sha": "d6d112a1af2ee8c97fc1932df008183341e7d8fe",
                         "installed_by": ["modules"]
                     },
                     "bcftools/stats": {
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/bcftools/sort/main.nf b/modules/nf-core/bcftools/sort/main.nf
index ef41fd25da..702d510f37 100644
--- a/modules/nf-core/bcftools/sort/main.nf
+++ b/modules/nf-core/bcftools/sort/main.nf
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ process BCFTOOLS_SORT {
     bcftools \\
         sort \\
         --output ${prefix}.${extension} \\
+        --temp-dir . \\
         $args \\
         $vcf