diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
index 957ba9885788..1d53ea2aceb3 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, python, buildPythonPackage, qtmultimedia, pyqt5
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, python, buildPythonPackage, qtmultimedia, pyqt5
 , jinja2, pygments, pyyaml, pypeg2, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good
 , gst-plugins-bad, gst-libav, wrapGAppsHook, glib_networking }:
 
-let version = "0.4.1"; in
+let version = "0.5.0"; in
 
-buildPythonPackage {
+buildPythonPackage rec {
   name = "qutebrowser-${version}";
   namePrefix = "";
 
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url = "https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser.git";
-    rev = "8d9e9851f1dcff5deb6363586ad0f1edec040b72";
-    sha256 = "1qsdad10swnk14qw4pfyvb94y6valhkscyvl46zbxxs7ck6llsm2";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/releases/download/v${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "16cyw0jg6qg9ksr6xwgnkm1a2bwgii2s35nrgk3g705ywfsf02j7";
   };
 
   # Needs tox