diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
index 3049e581b22..999deed3c66 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
-{ fetchurl, lib, stdenv, which, pkgconfig, makeWrapper, installShellFiles, libxcb, xcbutilkeysyms
+{ fetchurl, lib, stdenv, pkg-config, makeWrapper, meson, ninja, installShellFiles, libxcb, xcbutilkeysyms
 , xcbutil, xcbutilwm, xcbutilxrm, libstartup_notification, libX11, pcre, libev
 , yajl, xcb-util-cursor, perl, pango, perlPackages, libxkbcommon
 , xorgserver, xvfb_run }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "i3";
-  version = "4.18.3";
+  version = "4.19";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://i3wm.org/downloads/${pname}-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "03dijnwv2n8ak9jq59fhq0rc80m5wjc9d54fslqaivnnz81pkbjk";
+    url = "https://i3wm.org/downloads/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0wjq6lkidg0g474xsln1fhbxci7zclq3748sda10f1n7q01qp95c";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ which pkgconfig makeWrapper installShellFiles ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config makeWrapper meson ninja installShellFiles ];
 
   buildInputs = [
     libxcb xcbutilkeysyms xcbutil xcbutilwm xcbutilxrm libxkbcommon
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/gaps.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/gaps.nix
index e9759fc6b33..52322d8e194 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/gaps.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/gaps.nix
@@ -3,18 +3,13 @@
 i3.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs : rec {
 
   name = "i3-gaps-${version}";
-  version = "4.18.3";
+  version = "4.19";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/Airblader/i3/releases/download/${version}/i3-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1hcakwyz78lgp8mhqv7pw86jlb3m415pfql1q19rkijnhm3fn3ci";
+    url = "https://github.com/Airblader/i3/releases/download/${version}/i3-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0j19kj05fpjfnj50vyykk6jsr07hq9l26y8na55bb7yfrra8yp4h";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = oldAttrs.nativeBuildInputs ++ [ autoreconfHook ];
-
-  # fatal error: GENERATED_config_enums.h: No such file or directory
-  enableParallelBuilding = false;
-
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A fork of the i3 tiling window manager with some additional features";
     homepage    = "https://github.com/Airblader/i3";