diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/status.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/status.nix
index 17b147da1b2..567ab26b4ec 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/status.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/status.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
-{ fetchurl, stdenv, libconfuse, yajl, alsaLib, libpulseaudio, libnl, pkgconfig
-  }:
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, libconfuse, yajl, alsaLib, libpulseaudio, libnl, pkgconfig, asciidoc, xmlto, docbook_xml_dtd_45, docbook_xsl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "i3status-2.12";
+  name = "i3status-2.13";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://i3wm.org/i3status/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "06krpbijv4yi33nypg6qcn4hilcrdyarsdpd9fmr2cq46qaqiikg";
+    sha256 = "0rhlzb96mw64z2jnhwz9nibc7pxg549626lz5642xxk5hpzwk2ff";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig asciidoc xmlto docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xsl ];
   buildInputs = [ libconfuse yajl alsaLib libpulseaudio libnl ];
 
   makeFlags = [ "all" "PREFIX=$(out)" ];
 
+  # This hack is needed because for unknown reasons configure generates a broken makefile on the 2.13 release under nixos
+  preBuild = ''
+    sed -i -e 's/\$(TEST_LOGS) \$(TEST_LOGS/\$(TEST_LOGS)/g' Makefile
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     description = "A tiling window manager";
     homepage = https://i3wm.org;