diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/1.0.0.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/1.0.0.nix
index bd02397986be..a85ed9290fe2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/1.0.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/1.0.0.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 callPackage ./makeRustcDerivation.nix {
   shortVersion = "1.0.0";
   isRelease = true;
-  srcSha = "1fjyk5xhg9dx85d1kkjmb1jai7awvdmzcjf2fdmi2pdjyzacn163";
+  srcSha = "14brziw91d3r88fa1kvpvhap5ws4z8h2mas7h6k9lpsc2zl9blak";
   snapshotHashLinux686 = "1ef82402ed16f5a6d2f87a9a62eaa83170e249ec";
   snapshotHashLinux64 = "ef2154372e97a3cb687897d027fd51c8f2c5f349";
   snapshotHashDarwin686 = "0310b1a970f2da7e61770fd14dbbbdca3b518234";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/makeRustcDerivation.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/makeRustcDerivation.nix
index ae3981f1addc..6208190f8dfd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/makeRustcDerivation.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/makeRustcDerivation.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, which, file, perl, curl, python27, makeWrapper
-, tzdata, git, valgrind, procps, coreutils
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, fetchzip, which, file, perl, curl, python27
+, makeWrapper, tzdata, git, valgrind, procps, coreutils
 
 , shortVersion, isRelease
 , srcSha, srcRev ? ""
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   inherit meta;
 
   src = if isRelease then
-      fetchurl {
+      fetchzip {
         url = "http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-${version}-src.tar.gz";
         sha256 = srcSha;
       }