diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/timewarrior/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/timewarrior/default.nix
index 0946f6d4975..f49e6321cae 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/timewarrior/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/timewarrior/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, cmake, libuuid, gnutls }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, libuuid, gnutls }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "timewarrior-${version}";
-  version = "2016-03-29";
+  version = "0.9.5.alpha";
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url = "https://git.tasktools.org/scm/tm/timew.git";
-    rev = "2175849a81ddd03707dca7b4c9d69d8fa11e35f7";
-    sha256 = "0clhbm6093wnvpq0ypvx95095amvlzab0sz9kiflasw9mgnwisrv";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://taskwarrior.org/download/timew-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "154d5sgxcmz1b7g401c7s6sf7pkk0hh74dx6rss3vkamsjc4wgl8";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
 
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/{bin,share}
+    cp -rv doc/man $out/share/
+    cp src/timew $out/bin/
+  '';
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A command-line time tracker";
     homepage = http://tasktools.org/projects/timewarrior.html;