diff --git a/srcpkgs/luakit/template b/srcpkgs/luakit/template
index 795f3fcd85d..7226964cb79 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/luakit/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/luakit/template
@@ -1,36 +1,21 @@
 # Template file for 'luakit'
 pkgname=luakit
-_distver=2012.09.13
-_patchver=r1
-version=${_distver}.${_patchver}
-revision=5
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config help2man"
-makedepends="webkitgtk2-devel lua52-devel luafilesystem libunique1-devel sqlite-devel LuaJIT-devel"
-depends="desktop-file-utils luafilesystem"
-conf_files="
-	/etc/xdg/luakit/webview.lua
-	/etc/xdg/luakit/binds.lua
-	/etc/xdg/luakit/globals.lua
-	/etc/xdg/luakit/rc.lua
-	/etc/xdg/luakit/modes.lua
-	/etc/xdg/luakit/window.lua
-	/etc/xdg/luakit/theme.lua"
+version=2017.08.10
+revision=1
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="webkit2gtk-devel luafilesystem LuaJIT-devel"
+depends="luafilesystem"
+conf_files="/etc/xdg/luakit/*.lua"
 short_desc="Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-3"
-homepage="http://mason-larobina.github.com/luakit"
-distfiles="https://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit/archive/${_distver}-${_patchver}.tar.gz"
-checksum=a2d0a0cdf802fad2a83ef83ec87e7f4bfb61d76da4f48cd8f512085eee1aef18
-wrksrc=$pkgname-$_distver-$_patchver
+homepage="http://luakit.org/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/luakit/luakit/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=23d98b6b51b66c85b6823cd287e161e1093b80639f06f1da9b0a7290b0859d37
 
-pre_build() {
-	# use luajit to run script needed at build
-	sed -i '1s,lua,luajit,' build-utils/gentokens.lua
-}
 do_build() {
-	make USE_LUAJIT=1 PREFIX=/usr all
+	make DEVELOPMENT_PATHS=0 USE_LUAJIT=1 PREFIX=/usr all
 }
 do_install() {
 	make PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} install
-	chmod -x ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/pixmaps/luakit.png
 }