diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/pidgin-plugins/purple-facebook/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/pidgin-plugins/purple-facebook/default.nix
index cc58736afa5..30e4992ff36 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/pidgin-plugins/purple-facebook/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/pidgin-plugins/purple-facebook/default.nix
@@ -1,30 +1,58 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pidgin, glib, json_glib, mercurial, autoreconfHook } :
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchhg, pidgin, glib, json_glib, mercurial, autoreconfHook } :
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "purple-facebook-${version}";
-  version = "2016-04-09";
+
+let
+  pidginHg = fetchhg {
+    url = "https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main";
+    # take from VERSION file
+    rev = "c9b74a765767";
+    sha256 = "07bjz87jpslsb4gdqvcwp79mkahls2mfhlmpaa5w6n4xqhahw4j3";
+  };
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "purple-facebook-0.9.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "dequis";
     repo = "purple-facebook";
-    rev = "66ee77378d82";
-    sha256 = "0kr9idl79h70lacd3cvpmzvfd6il3b5xm2fj1sj96l7bjhiw9s3y";
+    rev = "v0.9.0-c9b74a765767";
+    sha256 = "1f7jhmaj15p3c9s4xmfygrpav9c8wq0vilbi5cj4jysb7xgndlqv";
   };
 
-  preAutoreconf = "./autogen.sh";
+  postPatch = ''
+    # we do all patching from update.sh in preAutoreconf
+    echo "#!/bin/sh" > update.sh
+  '';
+
+  preAutoreconf = ''
+    for FILE in $(cat MANIFEST_PIDGIN); do
+        install -Dm644 "${pidginHg}/$FILE" "pidgin/$FILE" || true
+    done
+
+    touch $(cat MANIFEST_VOIDS)
+
+    patchdir="$(pwd)/patches"
+    pushd pidgin
+
+    for patch in $(ls -1 "$patchdir"); do
+      patch -p1 -i "$patchdir/$patch"
+    done
+    popd
+
+    ./autogen.sh
+  '';
 
   makeFlags = [
     "PLUGIN_DIR_PURPLE=/lib/pidgin/"
     "DATA_ROOT_DIR_PURPLE=/share"
-    "DESTDIR=$(out)"
   ];
 
-  postInstall =  ''
+  installPhase = ''
     mkdir -p $out/lib/purple-2
     cp pidgin/libpurple/protocols/facebook/.libs/*.so $out/lib/purple-2/
   '';
 
-  buildInputs = [ pidgin glib json_glib mercurial autoreconfHook];
+  buildInputs = [pidgin glib json_glib mercurial autoreconfHook];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     inherit (src.meta) homepage;