diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/default.nix
index 15935751c32a..2e55306029f0 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/default.nix
@@ -5,13 +5,18 @@
 let
   glfw-git = glfw.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
     name = "glfw-git-${version}";
-    version = "unstable-2018-05-29";
+    version = "2019-06-30";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "glfw";
+      owner = "AndrewBelt";
       repo = "glfw";
-      rev = "0be4f3f75aebd9d24583ee86590a38e741db0904";
-      sha256 = "0zbcjgc7ks25yi949k0wjknfl00a4dqmz45mhp00k62vlq2sj0i5";
+      rev = "d9ab59efc781c392128a449361a381fcc93cf6f3";
+      sha256 = "1ykkq6qq8y6j5hlfj2zp1p87kr33vwhywziprz20v5avx1q7rjm8";
     };
+    # We patch the source to export a function that was added to the glfw fork
+    # for Rack so it is present when we build glfw as a shared library.
+    # See https://github.com/AndrewBelt/glfw/pull/1 for discussion of this issue
+    # with upstream.
+    patches = [ ./glfw.patch ];
     buildInputs = oldAttrs.buildInputs ++ [ libXext libXi ];
   });
   pfft-source = fetchFromBitbucket {
@@ -23,32 +28,31 @@ let
 in
 with stdenv.lib; stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "VCV-Rack-${version}";
-  version = "0.6.2b";
+  version = "1.1.3";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "VCVRack";
     repo = "Rack";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "17ynhxcci6dyn1yi871fd8yli4924fh12pmk510djwkcj5crhas6";
+    sha256 = "16q3x0jpwkdwwvh7rn472w7nfjf81s10z9c7bx011kk7rgk88hh2";
     fetchSubmodules = true;
   };
 
+  patches = [ ./rack-minimize-vendoring.patch ];
+
   prePatch = ''
-    ln -s ${pfft-source} dep/jpommier-pffft-source
+    cp -r ${pfft-source} dep/jpommier-pffft-source
 
     mkdir -p dep/include
 
     cp dep/jpommier-pffft-source/*.h dep/include
-    cp dep/nanosvg/src/*.h dep/include
+    cp dep/nanosvg/**/*.h dep/include
     cp dep/nanovg/src/*.h dep/include
     cp dep/osdialog/*.h dep/include
     cp dep/oui-blendish/*.h dep/include
 
     substituteInPlace include/audio.hpp --replace "<RtAudio.h>" "<rtaudio/RtAudio.h>"
     substituteInPlace compile.mk --replace "-march=nocona" ""
-    substituteInPlace Makefile \
-       --replace "-Wl,-Bstatic" "" \
-       --replace "-lglfw3" "-lglfw"
   '';
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
@@ -60,13 +64,12 @@ with stdenv.lib; stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   installPhase = ''
     install -D -m755 -t $out/bin Rack
-    cp -r res $out/
 
-    mkdir -p $out/share/rack
-    cp LICENSE.txt LICENSE-dist.txt $out/share/rack
+    mkdir -p $out/share/vcv-rack
+    cp -r res Core.json template.vcv LICENSE* cacert.pem $out/share/vcv-rack
 
     # Override the default global resource file directory
-    wrapProgram $out/bin/Rack --add-flags "-g $out"
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/Rack --add-flags "-s $out/share/vcv-rack"
   '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/glfw.patch b/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/glfw.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..77875415160c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/glfw.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
+index af4a579e..317e25b8 100644
+--- a/src/init.c
++++ b/src/init.c
+@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ GLFWAPI GLFWerrorfun glfwSetErrorCallback(GLFWerrorfun cbfun)
+ 
+ char glfwOpenedFilename[1024];
+ 
+-const char *glfwGetOpenedFilename()
++GLFWAPI const char *glfwGetOpenedFilename()
+ {
+     if (glfwOpenedFilename[0])
+     {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/rack-minimize-vendoring.patch b/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/rack-minimize-vendoring.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eca9c2f13c06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/vcv-rack/rack-minimize-vendoring.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -ru a/Makefile b/Makefile
+--- a/Makefile	1970-01-01 01:00:01.000000000 +0100
++++ b/Makefile	1970-01-01 01:00:01.000000000 +0100
+@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
+ build/dep/osdialog/osdialog_gtk2.c.o: FLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0)
+ 
+ 	LDFLAGS += -rdynamic \
+-		dep/lib/libglfw3.a dep/lib/libGLEW.a dep/lib/libjansson.a dep/lib/libspeexdsp.a dep/lib/libzip.a dep/lib/libz.a dep/lib/librtmidi.a dep/lib/librtaudio.a dep/lib/libcurl.a dep/lib/libssl.a dep/lib/libcrypto.a \
+-		-lpthread -lGL -ldl -lX11 -lasound -ljack \
++		-lGLEW -ljansson -lspeexdsp -lzip -lz -lrtmidi -lrtaudio -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto \
++		-lpthread -lGL -ldl -lX11 -lasound -ljack -lglfw \
+ 		$(shell pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0)
+ 	TARGET := Rack
+ endif