diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/tabbed/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/tabbed/default.nix
index 6fefb219158..80c2a5705a7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/tabbed/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/tabbed/default.nix
@@ -3,21 +3,19 @@
 with stdenv.lib;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "tabbed-20150509";
+  name = "tabbed-20160425";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = http://git.suckless.org/tabbed;
-    rev = "55dc32b27b73c121cab18009bf087e95ef3d9c18";
-    sha256 = "0c5ayf1lrb1xiz5h8dfd4mh05kas42zzi5m5ylrvl67sfz3z4wg1";
+    rev = "bc236142fa72d2f9d6b5c790d3f3a9a9168a7164";
+    sha256 = "1fiv57g3jnlhnb6zrzl3n6lnpn2s9s0sd7bcv7r1nb3grwy7icri";
   };
 
-  patches = optional enableXft ./xft.patch;
-
   postPatch = stdenv.lib.optionalString (customConfig != null) ''
     cp ${builtins.toFile "config.h" customConfig} ./config.h
   '';
 
-  buildInputs = [ xproto libX11 ] ++ optional enableXft libXft;
+  buildInputs = [ xproto libX11 libXft ];
 
   preInstall = ''
     export makeFlags="PREFIX=$out"
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 241ac78976f..90188ff100e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14383,7 +14383,6 @@ in
   synergy = callPackage ../applications/misc/synergy { };
 
   tabbed = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/tabbed {
-    enableXft = true;
     # if you prefer a custom config, write the config.h in tabbed.config.h
     # and enable
     # customConfig = builtins.readFile ./tabbed.config.h;