diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
index a8d2b42bb3b..43d3865035a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 { fetchurl, stdenv, which, pkgconfig, makeWrapper, libxcb, xcbutilkeysyms
 , xcbutil, xcbutilwm, libstartup_notification, libX11, pcre, libev, yajl
-, xcb-util-cursor, coreutils, perl, pango, perlPackages, xdummy, libxkbcommon }:
+, xcb-util-cursor, coreutils, perl, pango, perlPackages, libxkbcommon
+, xorgserver, xvfb_run }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "i3-${version}";
-  version = "4.9.1";
+  version = "4.10.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://i3wm.org/downloads/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0hyw2rdxigiklqvv7fbhcdqdxkgcxvx56vk4r5v55l674zqfy3dp";
+    sha256 = "1qjpbrfy5pnk5d0dh9zs96ppw3jwad1jcy529zy4ja68mdgz6b8b";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     libstartup_notification libX11 pcre libev yajl xcb-util-cursor perl pango
     perlPackages.AnyEventI3 perlPackages.X11XCB perlPackages.IPCRun
     perlPackages.ExtUtilsPkgConfig perlPackages.TestMore perlPackages.InlineC
+    xorgserver xvfb_run
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''
@@ -26,8 +28,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   checkPhase = stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux")
   ''
-    ln -sf "${xdummy}/bin/xdummy" testcases/Xdummy
-    (cd testcases && perl complete-run.pl -p 1)
+    (cd testcases && xvfb-run ./complete-run.pl -p 1)
     ! grep -q '^not ok' testcases/latest/complete-run.log
   '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index d97d6e182e8..62fb56b4b1e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -104,11 +104,11 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ pkgs.pkgconfig pkgs.gtk2 pkgs.wxGTK ModulePluggable ];
   };
 
-  AnyEvent = buildPerlPackage {
-    name = "AnyEvent-7.07";
+  AnyEvent = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "AnyEvent-7.08";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/M/ML/MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-7.07.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "01iilh11xc2gw6fxxr6il3r6n1k4cf6swaddgbhi525wfzlchk2c";
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/M/ML/MLEHMANN/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "16nnqzxy5baiar6gxnq5w296mmjgijcn1jq8rp867nksph03mxz8";
     };
     meta = {
       maintainers = with maintainers; [ ocharles ];
@@ -117,10 +117,10 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
   };
 
   AnyEventI3 = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "AnyEvent-I3-0.15";
+    name = "AnyEvent-I3-0.16";
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/M/MS/MSTPLBG/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0x8zi06667bdgaxn7driqx0d71mp6021r51hdzmj5m5qbhi2hvqi";
+      sha256 = "1qwva5vmmn929l6k9wzhp4h80ad4qm4m1g2dyv4nlas624003hig";
     };
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ AnyEvent JSONXS ];
     meta = {
@@ -10567,10 +10567,10 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
   };
 
   X11XCB = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "X11-XCB-0.11";
+    name = "X11-XCB-0.12";
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/M/MS/MSTPLBG/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "18i3z1fzw76kl9n5driys12r6vhp3r6rmb2pjn5nc7m9n4bwgh38";
+      sha256 = "15jq55qcc27s5bn925pwry0vx2f4d42rlyz2hlfglnn2qnhsp37s";
     };
     AUTOMATED_TESTING = false;
     buildInputs = [