diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
index 14fd6ce4193..042e1a323a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
@@ -3,17 +3,21 @@
   libXcursor, coreutils, perl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "i3-4.2";
+  name = "i3-${version}";
+  version = "4.3";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://i3wm.org/downloads/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "e02c832820e8922a44e744e555294f8580c2f8e218c5c1029e52f1bde048732b";
+    sha256 = "895bf586092535efb2bc723ba599c71a027768115e56052f111fc8bb148db925";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ which pkgconfig libxcb xcbutilkeysyms xcbutil bison xcbutilwm
     libstartup_notification libX11 pcre libev yajl flex libXcursor perl ];
 
-  patchPhase = "patchShebangs .";
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i -e '/^# Pango/,/^$/d' common.mk
+    patchShebangs .
+  '';
 
   configurePhase = "makeFlags=PREFIX=$out";