diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/xchat/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/xchat/default.nix
index e7eed29f42b..5d12667e307 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/xchat/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/xchat/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, glib, pkgconfig, tcl, gtk}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, tcl, gtk}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "xchat-2.6.0";
+  name = "xchat-2.8.2";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/xchat-2.6.0.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "0c827bf6df0572231cbbb1e25965fb61";
+    url = http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.8/xchat-2.8.2.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "1zjhjwr03nj52lpsvl78jwhir7q6482nnd4h1p0a9zka27kj4v4z";
   };
-  buildInputs = [glib pkgconfig tcl gtk];
+  buildInputs = [pkgconfig tcl gtk];
   configureFlags = "--disable-nls";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a63878dd0b8..c64c48ba0d8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2980,7 +2980,7 @@ rec {
 
   xchat = import ../applications/networking/irc/xchat {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig tcl;
-    inherit (gtkLibs) glib gtk;
+    inherit (gtkLibs) gtk;
   };
 
   xchm = import ../applications/misc/xchm {