diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/default.nix
index 772aaf54e0a..1b440be200a 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/default.nix
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ rec {
   orbit = ORBit2;
 
 
-#### Overrides of libraries
-
-  libsoup = pkgs.libsoup_2_44;
-
 #### Core (http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/core/)
 
   at_spi2_atk = callPackage ./core/at-spi2-atk { };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gssdp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gssdp/default.nix
index 2c14451ba78..466406fbe79 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gssdp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gssdp/default.nix
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "gssdp-0.12.2.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnome/sources/gssdp/0.12/gssdp-0.12.2.1.tar.xz;
-    sha256 = "0544f9nv6dpnfd0qbmxm8xwqjh8dafcmf3vlzkdly12xh5bs52lj";
+    url = mirror://gnome/sources/gssdp/0.14/gssdp-0.14.6.tar.xz;
+    sha256 = "1kgakr0rpdpm7nkp4ycka12nndga16wmzim79v1nbcc0j2wxxkws";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [pkgconfig libsoup glib libxml2];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gupnp-av/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gupnp-av/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3cbb13972d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gupnp-av/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, gupnp, pkgconfig }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "gupnp-av-${version}";
+  majorVersion = "0.12";
+  version = "${majorVersion}.4";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/gupnp-av/${majorVersion}/gupnp-av-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0nvsvpiyfslz54j4hjh2gsdjkbi2qj2f4k0aw8s7f05kibprr2jl";
+  };
+  
+  buildInputs = [ gupnp pkgconfig ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://gupnp.org/;
+    description = "GUPnP-AV is a collection of helpers for building AV (audio/video) applications using GUPnP.";
+    longDescription = "GUPnP implements the UPnP specification: resource announcement and discovery, description, control, event notification, and presentation (GUPnP includes basic web server functionality through libsoup). GUPnP does not include helpers for construction or control of specific standardized resources (e.g. MediaServer); this is left for higher level libraries utilizing the GUPnP framework.";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gupnp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gupnp/default.nix
index ca92bb82a73..bae0639a61c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gupnp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gupnp/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib, libxml2, gssdp, libsoup, libuuid }:
  
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gupnp-0.18.4";
-
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "gupnp-${version}";
+  majorVersion = "0.20";
+  version = "${majorVersion}.9";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnome/sources/gupnp/0.18/gupnp-0.18.4.tar.xz;
-    sha256 = "18bqmy8r44fnga9wz9inlq6k2s0292bnnql0c0n2j4mj25bpshvb";
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/gupnp/${majorVersion}/gupnp-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0vicydn3f72x1rqql7857ans85mg7dfap7n7h8xrfyb9whxhlrb1";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libxml2 libsoup gssdp ];
@@ -13,7 +14,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
 
+  postInstall = '' 
+    cp -r ${libsoup}/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup $out/include
+    cp -r ${gssdp}/include/gssdp-1.0/libgssdp $out/include
+    cp -r ${libxml2}/include/libxml2/libxml $out/include
+    '';
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.gupnp.org/;
+    description = "GUPnP is an implementation of the UPnP specification.";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/2.44.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/2.44.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bef93ff8cd..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/2.44.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, intltool, python, gobjectIntrospection
-, glib, libxml2, sqlite, glib_networking
-, gnomeSupport ? true, libgnome_keyring
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "libsoup-2.44.2";
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "HTTP client/server library";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl2Plus;
-  };
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnome/sources/libsoup/2.44/libsoup-2.44.2.tar.xz;
-    sha256 = "1wwqsmi1jvidiqwbdnjl66nmk1yja8w9dxf9cz10zh56fjmvbr77";
-  };
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    substituteInPlace libsoup/tld-parser.py \
-      --replace "!/usr/bin/env python" "!${python}/bin/${python.executable}"
-  '';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig intltool python gobjectIntrospection ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ glib libxml2 sqlite ]
-    ++ stdenv.lib.optionals gnomeSupport [ libgnome_keyring ];
-
-  passthru.propagatedUserEnvPackages = [ glib_networking ];
-
-  # glib_networking is a runtime dependency, not a compile-time dependency
-  configureFlags = "--disable-tls-check";
-
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin "-lintl";
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix
index a5ce0fda270..12124474566 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,23 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, glib, libxml2, pkgconfig
 , gnomeSupport ? true, libgnome_keyring, sqlite, glib_networking
-, libintlOrEmpty }:
+, libintlOrEmpty
+, intltool, python }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "libsoup-2.38.1";
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libsoup-${version}";
+  majorVersion = "2.45";
+  version = "${majorVersion}.3";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnome/sources/libsoup/2.38/libsoup-2.38.1.tar.xz;
-    sha256 = "16iza4y8pmc4sn90iid88fgminvgcqypy3s2qnmzkzm5qwzr5f3i";
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/libsoup/${majorVersion}/libsoup-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "04ma47hcrrbjp90r8jjn686cngnbgac24wgarpwwzlpg66wighva";
   };
 
+  patchPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs libsoup/
+    '';
 
-  buildInputs = libintlOrEmpty;
+  buildInputs = libintlOrEmpty ++ [ intltool python ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ glib libxml2 ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optionals gnomeSupport [ libgnome_keyring sqlite ];
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/gupnp-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/gupnp-tools/default.nix
index 8346be2ceb5..54f3e860e0c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/gupnp-tools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/gupnp-tools/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
-{fetchurl, stdenv, gupnp, gssdp, pkgconfig, glib, libxml2, libsoup, gtk, libglade, gnomeicontheme, e2fsprogs}:
+{fetchurl, stdenv, gupnp, gssdp, pkgconfig, gtk3, libuuid, intltool, gupnp_av, gnome3, makeWrapper}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "gupnp-tools-0.6";
+  name = "gupnp-tools-${version}";
+  majorVersion = "0.8";
+  version = "${majorVersion}.8";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://www.gupnp.org/sources/gupnp-tools/gupnp-tools-0.6.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "08fnggk85zqdcvm4np53yxw15b3ck25c2rmyfrh04g8j25qf50dj";
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/gupnp-tools/${majorVersion}/gupnp-tools-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "160dgh9pmlb85qfavwqz46lqawpshs8514bx2b57f9rbiny8kbij";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [gupnp gssdp pkgconfig glib libxml2 libsoup gtk libglade gnomeicontheme e2fsprogs];
+  buildInputs = [gupnp libuuid gssdp pkgconfig gtk3 intltool gupnp_av gnome3.gnome_icon_theme gnome3.gnome_themes_standard makeWrapper];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    wrapProgram "$out/bin/gupnp-av-cp" --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${gtk3}/share:${gnome3.gnome_themes_standard}/share:${gnome3.gnome_icon_theme}/share:$out/share"
+    wrapProgram "$out/bin/gupnp-universal-cp" --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${gtk3}/share:${gnome3.gnome_themes_standard}/share:${gnome3.gnome_icon_theme}/share:$out/share"
+  '';
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 22cf0c51680..6b28eb79073 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1101,11 +1101,11 @@ let
     inherit (gnome) libsoup;
   };
 
+  gupnp_av = callPackage ../development/libraries/gupnp-av {};
+
   gupnp_igd = callPackage ../development/libraries/gupnp-igd {};
 
-  gupnptools = callPackage ../tools/networking/gupnp-tools {
-    inherit (gnome) libsoup libglade gnomeicontheme;
-  };
+  gupnptools = callPackage ../tools/networking/gupnp-tools {};
 
   gvpe = builderDefsPackage ../tools/networking/gvpe {
     inherit openssl gmp nettools iproute;
@@ -4120,9 +4120,7 @@ let
 
   geoclue = callPackage ../development/libraries/geoclue {};
 
-  geoclue2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/geoclue/2.0.nix {
-    libsoup = libsoup_2_44;
-  };
+  geoclue2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/geoclue/2.0.nix {};
 
   geoip = builderDefsPackage ../development/libraries/geoip {
     inherit zlib;
@@ -4928,7 +4926,6 @@ let
   libsodium = callPackage ../development/libraries/libsodium { };
 
   libsoup = callPackage ../development/libraries/libsoup { };
-  libsoup_2_44 = callPackage ../development/libraries/libsoup/2.44.nix { };
 
   libssh = callPackage ../development/libraries/libssh { };
 
@@ -5734,7 +5731,6 @@ let
     };
 
   webkitgtk = callPackage ../development/libraries/webkitgtk {
-    libsoup = libsoup_2_44;
     harfbuzz = harfbuzz.override {
       withIcu = true;
     };