diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/default.nix
index a6aae14e5c3..799433b12f9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 { callPackage, fetchurl, ... } @ args:
 
 callPackage ./generic.nix (args // rec {
-  version = "3.0";
+  version = "3.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/nettle/nettle-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "04yrpjz33vrj6j0zxc153b00f93i8hs41syr1ryp7sr64fyw0lcn";
+    sha256 = "1ly9kz5fgc8ilykz07crqwgjsfn4p2s6565gj1aq0w4fr179v1gn";
   };
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/generic.nix
index 76629c80b96..6044f978402 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/generic.nix
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
   patches = stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin")
               ./cygwin.patch;
 
-  meta = {
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Cryptographic library";
 
     longDescription = ''
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
         I/O.
      '';
 
-     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+     license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
 
      homepage = http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/;
 
-     maintainers = [ ];
-     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+     maintainers = with maintainers; [ wkennington ];
+     platforms = platforms.all;
   };
 }