diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/openimagedenoise/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/openimagedenoise/default.nix
index 5cecc33564e4..a7098fe93052 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/openimagedenoise/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/openimagedenoise/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, tbb, python }:
+{ stdenv, fetchzip, cmake, tbb, python, ispc }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "openimagedenoise";
-  version = "1.1.0";
+  version = "1.2.1";
 
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "OpenImageDenoise";
-    repo = "oidn";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "032s7vablqnmrcc4xf2c94kwj0kbcd64bram10g0yc42fg0a3r9m";
-    fetchSubmodules = true;
+  # The release tarballs include pretrained weights, which would otherwise need to be fetched with git-lfs
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url = "https://github.com/OpenImageDenoise/oidn/releases/download/v${version}/oidn-${version}.src.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1f8s69ixv7nsdap9hc2njli2x75zmlrfq8cy79772gz83kph8s25";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake python ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake python ispc ];
   buildInputs = [ tbb ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {