diff --git a/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/builder.sh b/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/builder.sh
index f3edf124ec8..5c40eaaa9b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/builder.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 source $stdenv/setup
 
 postInstall() {
-  if test "$hotplugSupport" = "1" ; then
-    ensureDir $out/etc/hotplug/usb/
-    cp tools/hotplug/* $out/etc/hotplug/usb/
+  if test "$udevSupport" = "1" ; then
+    ensureDir $out/etc/udev/rules.d/
+    cp tools/udev/libsane.rules $out/etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules
   fi
 }
 
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/default.nix
index b7e7d89c821..6f28cfe0a4c 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/default.nix
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 assert hotplugSupport -> stdenv.system == "i686-linux";
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "sane-backends-1.0.17";
+  name = "sane-backends-1.0.18";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/sane-backends-1.0.17.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "b51c10da8a81a04e1bae88c9e6556df2";
+    url = ftp://ftp.sane-project.org/pub/sane/sane-backends-1.0.18/sane-backends-1.0.18.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "7ca7e2908e24721471de92cf40c75e60";
   };
-  inherit hotplugSupport;
+  udevSupport = hotplugSupport;
 }