diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
index 664daef1a4b7..1ff61a6041a2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
@@ -1070,14 +1070,16 @@ let
   };
 
   go-bindata = buildGoPackage rec {
-    version = "3.0.7";
+    rev = "a0ff2567cfb70903282db057e799fd826784d41d";
+    date = "2015-10-23";
+    version = "${date}-${stdenv.lib.strings.substring 0 7 rev}";
     name = "go-bindata-${version}";
     goPackagePath = "github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      inherit rev;
       repo = "go-bindata";
       owner = "jteeuwen";
-      rev = "v${version}";
-      sha256 = "1v8xwwlv6my5ixvis31m3vgz4sdc0cq82855j8gxmjp1scinv432";
+      sha256 = "0d6zxv0hgh938rf59p1k5lj0ymrb8kcps2vfrb9kaarxsvg7y69v";
     };
 
     subPackages = [ "./" "go-bindata" ]; # don't build testdata