diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/src-for-default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/src-for-default.nix
index 73ba92e8d06..13585e504a8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/src-for-default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/src-for-default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 rec {
-   version="1.0.43";
-   name="sbcl-1.0.43";
-   hash="0csykjcmy0gjlvxx7pg7kd2b7h610zpys3xla85qjj9ngjzpmbcq";
-   url="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sbcl/sbcl/1.0.43/sbcl-1.0.43-source.tar.bz2";
-   advertisedUrl="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sbcl/sbcl/1.0.43/sbcl-1.0.43-source.tar.bz2";
+   version="1.0.44";
+   name="sbcl-1.0.44";
+   hash="0nl1vrz6mibbhjaxbi64gr0sbq9hf2yjc1h4i05kjw5l6dhws8hg";
+   url="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sbcl/sbcl/1.0.44/sbcl-1.0.44-source.tar.bz2";
+   advertisedUrl="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sbcl/sbcl/1.0.44/sbcl-1.0.44-source.tar.bz2";
   
   
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/src-info-for-default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/src-info-for-default.nix
index bd320d2e1c9..4bc8516d4b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/src-info-for-default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/src-info-for-default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   baseName = "sbcl";
   downloadPage = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbcl/files/";
-  choiceCommand = "head -1 | sed -e 's@/download@@;'\"$skipRedirectSF\"";
+  choiceCommand = "head -n 2| tail -n 1 | sed -e 's@/download@@;'\"$skipRedirectSF\"";
   sourceRegexp = "source[.-].*tar";
   versionExtractorSedScript = "s/.*-([0-9.rc]+)-.*/\\1/";
   blacklistRegexp = "1[.]0[.]3[012]|1[.]0[.]29[.]54[.]rc1";