diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/megatools/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/megatools/default.nix
index f6a75011287..e2d4880250c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/megatools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/megatools/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,25 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib, fuse, curl, glib-networking
-, asciidoc, wrapGAppsHook }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, glib, fuse, curl, glib-networking
+, asciidoc, libxml2, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_45, libxslt, wrapGAppsHook }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "megatools-${version}";
-  version = "1.9.98";
+  version = "2017-10-26";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://megatools.megous.com/builds/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0vx1farp0dpg4zwvxdbfdnzjk9qx3sn109p1r1zl3g3xsaj221cv";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "megous";
+    repo = "megatools";
+    rev = "35dfba3262f620b4701ec1975293463957e20f26";
+    sha256 = "0xphgv78j731rmhxic4fwzdr7vq5px921qifrw1y40b93nhy4d5n";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig wrapGAppsHook asciidoc ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    autoreconfHook pkgconfig wrapGAppsHook asciidoc libxml2
+    docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_45 libxslt
+  ];
   buildInputs = [ glib glib-networking fuse curl ];
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Command line client for Mega.co.nz";
     homepage = https://megatools.megous.com/;