diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/gopher/gopher/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/gopher/gopher/default.nix
index 4fcdf55777a6..f90e35ca7e2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/gopher/gopher/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/gopher/gopher/default.nix
@@ -1,23 +1,25 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses}:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ncurses }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "gopher";
-  version = "3.0.11";
+  version = "3.0.17";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/gopher/Downloads/gopher_${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "15r7x518wlpfqpd6z0hbdwm8rw8ll8hbpskdqgxxhrmy00aa7w9c";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "jgoerzen";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "release/${version}";
+    sha256 = "1j6xh5l8v231d4mwl9gj1c34dc0jmazz6zg1qqfxmqr9y609jq3h";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
 
   preConfigure = "export LIBS=-lncurses";
 
-  meta = {
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/gopher;
     description = "A ncurses gopher client";
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ sternenseemann ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux; # clang doesn't like local regex.h
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ sternenseemann ];
   };
 }