diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/boomerang/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/boomerang/default.nix
index 2623787993c6..9e567ef59b0d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/boomerang/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/boomerang/default.nix
@@ -1,41 +1,23 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, qtbase }:
+{ mkDerivation, lib, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, qtbase, capstone, bison, flex }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "boomerang";
-  version = "0.4.0-alpha-2018-07-03";
+  version = "0.5.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "ceeac";
-    repo = "boomerang";
-    rev = "377ff2d7db93d892c925e2d3e61aef818371ce7d";
-    sha256 = "1ljbyj3b8xckr1wihyii3h576zgq0q88vli0ylpr3p4jxy5sm57j";
+    owner = "BoomerangDecompiler";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "046ba4km8c31kbnllx05nbqhjmk7bpi56d3n8md8bsr98nj21a2j";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
-  buildInputs = [ qtbase ];
-
-  postPatch =
-  # Look in installation directory for required files, not relative to working directory
-  ''
-    substituteInPlace src/boomerang/core/Settings.cpp \
-      --replace "setDataDirectory(\"../share/boomerang\");" \
-                "setDataDirectory(\"$out/share/boomerang\");" \
-      --replace "setPluginDirectory(\"../lib/boomerang/plugins\");" \
-                "setPluginDirectory(\"$out/lib/boomerang/plugins\");"
-  ''
-  # Fixup version:
-  # * don't try to inspect with git
-  #   (even if we kept .git and such it would be "dirty" because of patching)
-  # * use date so version is monotonically increasing moving forward
-  + ''
-    sed -i cmake-scripts/boomerang-version.cmake \
-      -e 's/set(\(PROJECT\|BOOMERANG\)_VERSION ".*")/set(\1_VERSION "${version}")/'
-  '';
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake bison flex ];
+  buildInputs = [ qtbase capstone ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    homepage = http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/BoomerangDecompiler/boomerang;
     license = licenses.bsd3;
     description = "A general, open source, retargetable decompiler";
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ dtzWill ];