diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa/library/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa/library/default.nix
index f0edae8fb4b7..4bfbe0ef3d40 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa/library/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa/library/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "alsa-lib-1.0.8";
+  name = "alsa-lib-1.0.9";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/alsa-lib-1.0.8.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "c677299ed39d069c9a4b6a999e34ffe7";
+    url = ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.9.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "114af3304619920ffe2b147b760700b9";
   };
 }