diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/shadowsocks-libev/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/shadowsocks-libev/default.nix
index 09fa69dd37c..7e6c5f56dc7 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/shadowsocks-libev/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/shadowsocks-libev/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, cmake
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake
 , libsodium, mbedtls, libev, c-ares, pcre
 , asciidoc, xmlto, docbook_xml_dtd_45, docbook_xsl, libxslt
 }:
@@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "3.2.0";
 
   # Git tag includes CMake build files which are much more convenient.
-  # fetchgit because submodules.
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url = "https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "shadowsocks";
+    repo = "shadowsocks-libev";
     rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
     sha256 = "0i9vz5b2c2bkdl2k9kqzvqyrlpdl94lf7k7rzxds8hn2kk0jizhb";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ libsodium mbedtls libev c-ares pcre ];