diff --git a/srcpkgs/v8/libv8.template b/srcpkgs/v8/libv8.template
index 3ed2aa6bd5d..25cc7c74d0e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/v8/libv8.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/v8/libv8.template
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 # Template file for 'libv8'.
 #
 short_desc="${short_desc} (Runtime library)"
-long_desc="${long_desc}
+long_desc="
+ V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine. V8 is written in C++ and is
+ used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.
+
+ V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 5th edition, and runs on
+ Windows (XP or newer), Mac OS X (10.5 or newer), and Linux systems that use
+ IA-32, x64, or ARM processors.
 
  This package contains the v8 runtime library."
 
-do_install()
-{
+do_install() {
 	vmove usr/lib usr
 }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/v8/template b/srcpkgs/v8/template
index dfda2944b31..1d426abb0c3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/v8/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/v8/template
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'v8'
 pkgname=v8
-version=3.11.10.12
-distfiles="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-official/${pkgname}-$version.tar.bz2"
-makedepends="python readline-devel which"
+version=3.14.5
 revision=1
 short_desc="V8 JavaScript Engine"
 maintainer="davehome <davehome@redthumb.info.tm>"
 homepage="http://code.google.com/p/v8/"
 license="BSD"
-checksum=fc7b0e54ba1d5f07ce0bb9cf0f09aab66c9aa14861e5e8a28ef0bb2a3f729430
+distfiles="http://github.com/v8/v8/tarball/${version}"
+checksum=e5e06d14cbb5b0cec9cfbbe5e87714d52a17f222b83875673157453cce6e6c5b
 long_desc="
  V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine. V8 is written in C++ and is
  used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.
@@ -22,15 +21,23 @@ long_desc="
  This package contains v8 the utilities mksnapshot and the d8 shell."
 
 subpackages="${pkgname}-devel lib${pkgname}"
+makedepends="git which subversion python readline-devel"
 
+noextract=yes
+nofetch=yes
 
-do_build()
-{
-	make ${makejobs} native library=shared console=readline disassembler=on liveobjectlist=on
+do_fetch() {
+	git clone -b${version} git://github.com/v8/v8.git v8-${version}
 }
 
-do_install()
-{
+do_build() {
+	make dependencies
+
+	make ${makejobs} native library=shared console=readline \
+		disassembler=on liveobjectlist=on
+}
+
+do_install() {
 	vinstall out/native/d8 755 usr/bin
 	vinstall out/native/mksnapshot 755 usr/bin
 	vinstall out/native/lib.target/lib${pkgname}.so 755 usr/lib
diff --git a/srcpkgs/v8/v8-devel.template b/srcpkgs/v8/v8-devel.template
index 4c23fd84bd5..cda46c2631f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/v8/v8-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/v8/v8-devel.template
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 # Template file for 'v8-devel'.
 #
-depends="libv8"
+noarch=yes
+depends="libv8-${version}_${revision}"
 short_desc="${short_desc} (Development headers)"
-long_desc="${long_desc}
+long_desc="
+ V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine. V8 is written in C++ and is
+ used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.
+
+ V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 5th edition, and runs on
+ Windows (XP or newer), Mac OS X (10.5 or newer), and Linux systems that use
+ IA-32, x64, or ARM processors.
 
  This package contains the v8 development headers."
 
-
-do_install()
-{
+do_install() {
 	vmove usr/include usr
 }