diff --git a/srcpkgs/btdu/template b/srcpkgs/btdu/template
index e2c173e4934..3e08d8262b4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/btdu/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/btdu/template
@@ -1,27 +1,22 @@
 # Template file for 'btdu'
 pkgname=btdu
-version=0.4.1
+version=0.5.0
 revision=1
 # fails to build on musl due to different argument types for ioctl
 # struct packing seems to differ on i686 archs and therefore d-btrfs fails
-archs=x86_64
-hostmakedepends="dmd dub"
+archs="x86_64"
+hostmakedepends="ldc dub"
 makedepends="zlib-devel ncurses-devel"
 short_desc="Sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs"
 maintainer="Siddhartha Menon <siddharthamenon+void@outlook.com>"
 license="GPL-2.0-only"
 homepage="https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu"
 distfiles="https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=265c63ee82067f6b5dc44b47c9ec58be5e13c654f31035c60a7e375ffa4082c9
+checksum=90ba4d8997575993e9d39a503779fb32b37bb62b8d9386776e95743bfc859606
 nocross="dmd compilation fails on cross"
 
-pre_configure() {
-	vsed -e 's/dependency "ae" version="==0.0.3184"/dependency "ae" version="==0.0.3228"/g' -i dub.sdl
-	vsed -e 's/"ae": "0.0.3184"/"ae": "0.0.3228"/g' -i dub.selections.json
-}
-
 do_build() {
-	dub build -b release
+	dub build --compiler=ldc2 -b release
 }
 
 do_install() {