diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/catalog-legacy-uris.patch b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/catalog-legacy-uris.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..72922eee96c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/catalog-legacy-uris.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- a/catalog.xml
++++ b/catalog.xml
+@@ -5,4 +5,7 @@
+   <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://cdn.docbook.org/release/xsl@suffix@/current/" rewritePrefix="./"/>
+   <rewriteURI uriStartString="http://cdn.docbook.org/release/xsl@suffix@/@version@/" rewritePrefix="./"/>
+   <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://cdn.docbook.org/release/xsl@suffix@/@version@/" rewritePrefix="./"/>
++  <!-- legacy URIs -->
++  <rewriteURI uriStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl@legacySuffix@/current/" rewritePrefix="./"/>
++  <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl@legacySuffix@/current/" rewritePrefix="./"/>
+ </catalog>
diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
index ef7b1f93d74..5297d5dbd5d 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
@@ -1,66 +1,77 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, findXMLCatalogs, writeScriptBin, ruby, bash }:
+{ lib, stdenv, substituteAll, fetchurl, fetchpatch, findXMLCatalogs, writeScriptBin, ruby, bash }:
 
 let
 
-  common = { pname, sha256, patches ? [] }: let self = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "${pname}-1.79.1";
+  common = { pname, sha256, suffix ? "" }: let
+    legacySuffix = if suffix == "-nons" then "" else "-ns";
+    self = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+      inherit pname;
+      version = "1.79.2";
 
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://sourceforge/docbook/${name}.tar.bz2";
-      inherit sha256;
-    };
+      src = fetchurl {
+        url = "https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/releases/download/release%2F${version}/docbook-xsl${suffix}-${version}.tar.bz2";
+        inherit sha256;
+      };
 
-    inherit patches;
+      patches = [
+        # Prevent a potential stack overflow
+        # https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/pull/37
+        (fetchpatch {
+          url = https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/docbook-style-xsl/raw/e3ae7a97ed1d185594dd35954e1a02196afb205a/f/docbook-style-xsl-non-recursive-string-subst.patch;
+          sha256 = "0lrjjg5kpwwmbhkxzz6i5zmimb6lsvrrdhzc2qgjmb3r6jnsmii3";
+          stripLen = "1";
+        })
 
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ findXMLCatalogs ];
+        # Add legacy sourceforge.net URIs to the catalog
+        (substituteAll {
+          src = ./catalog-legacy-uris.patch;
+          inherit legacySuffix suffix version;
+        })
+      ];
 
-    dontBuild = true;
+      propagatedBuildInputs = [ findXMLCatalogs ];
 
-    installPhase = ''
-      dst=$out/share/xml/${pname}
-      mkdir -p $dst
-      rm -rf RELEASE* README* INSTALL TODO NEWS* BUGS install.sh svn* tools log Makefile tests extensions webhelp
-      mv * $dst/
+      dontBuild = true;
 
-      # Backwards compatibility. Will remove eventually.
-      mkdir -p $out/xml/xsl
-      ln -s $dst $out/xml/xsl/docbook
-    '';
+      installPhase = ''
+        dst=$out/share/xml/${pname}
+        mkdir -p $dst
+        rm -rf RELEASE* README* INSTALL TODO NEWS* BUGS install.sh tools Makefile tests extensions webhelp
+        mv * $dst/
 
-    passthru.dbtoepub = writeScriptBin "dbtoepub"
-      ''
-        #!${bash}/bin/bash
-        exec -a dbtoepub ${ruby}/bin/ruby ${self}/share/xml/${pname}/epub/bin/dbtoepub "$@"
+        # Backwards compatibility. Will remove eventually.
+        mkdir -p $out/xml/xsl
+        ln -s $dst $out/xml/xsl/docbook
+
+        # More backwards compatibility
+        ln -s $dst $out/share/xml/docbook-xsl${legacySuffix}
       '';
 
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets;
-      description = "XSL stylesheets for transforming DocBook documents into HTML and various other formats";
-      maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.eelco ];
-      platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+      passthru.dbtoepub = writeScriptBin "dbtoepub"
+        ''
+          #!${bash}/bin/bash
+          exec -a dbtoepub ${ruby}/bin/ruby ${self}/share/xml/${pname}/epub/bin/dbtoepub "$@"
+        '';
+
+      meta = {
+        homepage = http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets;
+        description = "XSL stylesheets for transforming DocBook documents into HTML and various other formats";
+        maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.eelco ];
+        platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+      };
     };
-  }; in self;
+  in self;
 
 in {
 
-  docbook_xsl = common {
-    pname = "docbook-xsl";
-    sha256 = "0s59lihif2fr7rznckxr2kfyrvkirv76r1zvidp9b5mj28p4apvj";
-
-    patches = [(fetchpatch {
-      name = "potential-infinite-template-recursion.patch";
-      url = "https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/docbook-style-xsl.git/"
-          + "plain/docbook-style-xsl-non-recursive-string-subst.patch?id=bf9e5d16fd";
-      sha256 = "1pfb468bsj3j879ip0950waih0r1s6rzfbm2p70glbz0g3903p7h";
-      stripLen = "1";
-    })];
-
+  docbook-xsl-nons = common {
+    pname = "docbook-xsl-nons";
+    suffix = "-nons";
+    sha256 = "00i1hdyxim8jymv2dz68ix3wbs5w6isxm8ijb03qk3vs1g59x2zf";
   };
 
-  docbook_xsl_ns = common {
+  docbook-xsl-ns = common {
     pname = "docbook-xsl-ns";
-    sha256 = "170ggf5dgjar65kkn5n33kvjr3pdinpj66nnxfx8b2avw0k91jin";
-
-    patches = [ ./docbook-xsl-ns-infinite.patch ];
+    sha256 = "0wd33z41kdsybyx3ay21w6bdlmgpd9kyn3mr5y520lsf8km28r9i";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-ns-infinite.patch b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-ns-infinite.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5729f9b43c8..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-ns-infinite.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-Description: Remove infinite recursion
-Attribute: docbook5_xsl
-Version: 1.79.1
-URL: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/39090
-diff -ru a/lib/lib.xsl b/lib/lib.xsl
---- a/lib/lib.xsl	2015-12-26 15:15:37.000000000 -0800
-+++ b/lib/lib.xsl	2018-03-22 11:52:45.311949264 -0700
-@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@
- 
-      ******************************************************************** -->
- <xsl:stylesheet exclude-result-prefixes="d"
--                 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
--version="1.0">
-+                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-+                xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-+                xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
-+                version="1.0">
- 
- <xsl:template name="dot.count">
-   <!-- Returns the number of "." characters in a string -->
-@@ -58,6 +61,9 @@
-   <xsl:param name="replacement"/>
- 
-   <xsl:choose>
-+    <xsl:when test="function-available('str:replace')">
-+      <xsl:value-of select="str:replace($string, string($target), string($replacement))"/>
-+    </xsl:when>
-     <xsl:when test="contains($string, $target)">
-       <xsl:variable name="rest">
-         <xsl:call-template name="string.subst">
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 79b693b989c..55d014cf8bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15974,8 +15974,12 @@ in
   docbook_xml_ebnf_dtd = callPackage ../data/sgml+xml/schemas/xml-dtd/docbook-ebnf { };
 
   inherit (callPackages ../data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl { })
-    docbook_xsl
-    docbook_xsl_ns;
+    docbook-xsl-nons
+    docbook-xsl-ns;
+
+  # TODO: move this to aliases
+  docbook_xsl = docbook-xsl-nons;
+  docbook_xsl_ns = docbook-xsl-ns;
 
   documentation-highlighter = callPackage ../misc/documentation-highlighter { };