diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix
index 8e50945ee99..8b54cb37a32 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchsvn, SDL, autoconf, automake, libtool, gtk2, m4, pkg-config, libGLU, libGL, makeWrapper }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, SDL, autoconf, automake, libtool, gtk2, m4, pkg-config, libGLU, libGL, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "smpeg-svn";
-  version = "390";
+  pname = "smpeg";
+  version = "0.4.5";
 
-  src = fetchsvn {
-    url = "svn://svn.icculus.org/smpeg/trunk";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "0ynwn7ih5l2b1kpzpibns9bb9wzfjak7mgrb1ji0dkn2q5pv6lr0";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "icculus";
+    repo = "smpeg";
+    rev = "release_${builtins.replaceStrings ["."] ["_"] version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-nq/i7cFGpJXIuTwN/ScLMX7FN8NMdgdsRM9xOD3uycs=";
   };
 
   patches = [
@@ -19,10 +20,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  buildInputs = [ SDL gtk2 libGLU libGL ];
-
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake libtool m4 pkg-config makeWrapper ];
 
+  buildInputs = [ SDL gtk2 libGLU libGL ];
+
   preConfigure = ''
     touch NEWS AUTHORS ChangeLog
     sh autogen.sh