diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
index b313fc0b53d..2975e1007ab 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
@@ -14,25 +14,23 @@
 let
   withSystemLibs = map (libname: "--with-system-${libname}");
 
-  year = "2017";
+  year = "2018";
   version = year; # keep names simple for now
 
   common = rec {
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = # "ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/${year}/"
-      #"http://lipa.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~cunav5am/nix/texlive-2016"
-      # FIXME: a proper mirror, though tarballs.nixos.org saves this case ATM
-      # http://146.185.144.154/texlive-2016
-      # + "/texlive-${year}0523b-source.tar.xz";
-        "http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/${year}/texlive-${year}0524-source.tar.xz";
-      sha256 = "1amjrxyasplv4alfwcxwnw4nrx7dz2ydmddkq16k6hg90i9njq81";
+      urls = [
+        "http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/${year}/texlive-${year}0414-source.tar.xz"
+              "ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/${year}/texlive-${year}0414-source.tar.xz"
+      ];
+      sha256 = "0khyi6h015r2zfqgg0a44a2j7vmr1cy42knw7jbss237yvakc07y";
     };
 
     patches = [
       (fetchurl {
-        name = "texlive-poppler-0.59.patch";
-        url = https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/texlive-poppler-0.59.patch?h=packages/texlive-bin&id=6308ec39bce2a4d735f6ff8a4e94473748d7b450;
-        sha256 = "1c4ikq4kxw48bi3i33bzpabrjvbk01fwjr2lz20gkc9kv8l0bg3n";
+        name = "texlive-poppler-0.64.patch";
+        url = https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/texlive-poppler-0.64.patch?h=packages/texlive-bin;
+        sha256 = "0443d074zl3c5raba8jyhavish706arjcd80ibb84zwnwck4ai0w";
       })
     ];
 
@@ -83,6 +81,8 @@ core = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     for i in texk/kpathsea/mktex*; do
       sed -i '/^mydir=/d' "$i"
     done
+    cp -pv texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf{-newpoppler.cc,.cc}
+    cp -pv texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc{-newpoppler.cc,.cc}
   '';
 
   preConfigure = ''
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ inherit (core-big) metafont metapost luatex xetex;
 core-big = stdenv.mkDerivation { #TODO: upmendex
   name = "texlive-core-big.bin-${version}";
 
-  inherit (common) src;
+  inherit (common) src patches;
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
@@ -180,16 +180,14 @@ core-big = stdenv.mkDerivation { #TODO: upmendex
         # http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/97999/when-to-use-luajittex-in-favour-of-luatex
       ];
 
-  patches = common.patches ++ [ ./luatex-gcc7.patch ];
-
   configureScript = ":";
 
   # we use static libtexlua, because it's only used by a single binary
   postConfigure = ''
     mkdir ./WorkDir && cd ./WorkDir
-    for path in libs/{teckit,lua52} texk/web2c; do
+    for path in libs/{teckit,lua52,lua53} texk/web2c; do
       (
-        if [[ "$path" == "libs/lua52" ]]; then
+        if [[ "$path" =~ "libs/lua5" ]]; then
           extraConfig="--enable-static --disable-shared"
         else
           extraConfig=""
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/luatex-gcc7.patch b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/luatex-gcc7.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cdaa968bd42..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/luatex-gcc7.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2017-June/040192.html
----
- texk/web2c/luatexdir/luaffi/ctype.c |    4 ++++
- texk/web2c/luatexdir/luaffi/ffi.h   |    2 +-
- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
---- a/texk/web2c/luatexdir/luaffi/ctype.c
-+++ b/texk/web2c/luatexdir/luaffi/ctype.c       2017-05-31 13:08:25.421741873 +0000
-@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@ void* to_cdata(lua_State* L, int idx, st
- 
-     lua_pop(L, 1); /* mt */
-     cd = (struct cdata*) lua_touserdata(L, idx);
-+    if (!cd) {
-+        lua_pushnil(L);
-+        return NULL;
-+    }
-     *ct = cd->type;
-     lua_getuservalue(L, idx);
- 
---- a/texk/web2c/luatexdir/luaffi/ffi.h
-+++ b/texk/web2c/luatexdir/luaffi/ffi.h 2017-06-01 09:12:45.128442092 +0000
-@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ __declspec(align(16))
- #endif
- struct cdata {
-     const struct ctype type
--#ifdef __GNUC__
-+#if 0 /* def __GNUC__ */
-       __attribute__ ((aligned(16)))
- #endif
-       ;