diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix
index 7ddfc2ebab0..a8e15d075b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix
@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
 { stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, pkgconfig, glib }:
 
 with lib;
+with builtins;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "conmon-${version}";
-  version = "unstable-2019-03-19";
-  rev = "84c860029893e2e2dd71d62231f009c9dcd3c0b4";
+  version = "0.0.1pre52_${substring 0 7 src.rev}";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "containers";
-    repo = "conmon";
-    sha256 = "1ydidl3s7s5rfwk9gx0k80nxcixlilxw61g7x0vqsdy3mkylysv5";
-    inherit rev;
+    owner  = "containers";
+    repo   = "conmon";
+    rev    = "6905a4dc47830fbd1110e937228057c0b073ebe1";
+    sha256 = "1igny1hr2q1zrhsaxcx7l8xkdr5ragl8pj18qbr1lpa2v5v2f6hs";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [
-    glib
-  ];
+  buildInputs = [ glib ];
 
   installPhase = ''
     install -D -m 555 bin/conmon $out/bin/conmon