diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/kdevelop5/kdevelop.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/kdevelop5/kdevelop.nix
index f0ac79e2d22..a35bd14f310 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/kdevelop5/kdevelop.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/kdevelop5/kdevelop.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 let
   pname = "kdevelop";
-  version = "5.2.4";
+  version = "5.3.1";
   qtVersion = "5.${lib.versions.minor qtbase.version}";
 in
 mkDerivation rec {
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://kde/stable/${pname}/${version}/src/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1jbks7nh9rybz4kg152l39hfj2x0p6mjins8x9mz03bbv8jf8gic";
+    sha256 = "1098ra7qpal6578hsv20kvxc63v47sp85wjhqr5rgzr2fm7jf6fr";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ mkDerivation rec {
     shared-mime-info libksysguard konsole kcrash karchive kguiaddons kpurpose
   ];
 
+  # https://cgit.kde.org/kdevelop.git/commit/?id=716372ae2e8dff9c51e94d33443536786e4bd85b
+  # required as nixos seems to be unable to find CLANG_BUILTIN_DIR
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "-DCLANG_BUILTIN_DIR=${llvmPackages.clang-unwrapped}/lib/clang/${(builtins.parseDrvName llvmPackages.clang.name).version}/include"
+  ];
+
   postInstall = ''
     # The kdevelop! script (shell environment) needs qdbus and kioclient5 in PATH.
     wrapProgram "$out/bin/kdevelop!" \
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5c0d3849b76..9eb901ff307 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17852,7 +17852,7 @@ in
   kdevelop-pg-qt = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/editors/kdevelop5/kdevelop-pg-qt.nix {};
 
   kdevelop = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/editors/kdevelop5/kdevelop.nix {
-    llvmPackages = llvmPackages_38;
+    llvmPackages = llvmPackages_7;
   };
 
   keepnote = callPackage ../applications/office/keepnote { };