diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
index 1f3b2685feeb..2562a821b822 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
@@ -1,25 +1,17 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ncurses, asciidoc, docbook_xsl, libxslt, pkg-config }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
 with lib;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "kakoune-unwrapped";
-  version = "2020.09.01";
+  version = "2021.08.28";
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     repo = "kakoune";
     owner = "mawww";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "091qzk0qs7hql0q51hix99srgma35mhdnjfd5ncfba1bmc1h8x5i";
+    sha256 = "13kc68vkrzg89khir6ayyxgbnmz16dhippcnw09hhzxivf5ayzpy";
   };
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ ncurses asciidoc docbook_xsl libxslt ];
-  makeFlags = [ "debug=no" ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    export PREFIX=$out
-    cd src
-    sed -ie 's#--no-xmllint#--no-xmllint --xsltproc-opts="--nonet"#g' Makefile
-  '';
+  makeFlags = [ "debug=no" "PREFIX=${placeholder "out"}" ];
 
   preConfigure = ''
     export version="v${version}"