diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibmm/2.22.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibmm/2.22.x.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 10b8ad8d3919..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibmm/2.22.x.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib, libsigcxx }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "glibmm-2.22.1";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/glibmm/2.22/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1h5nxhh6xr1m3jn6bawl3vq5i285k3kdpzqa65zxmxydzm5gy1gi";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [pkgconfig];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [glib libsigcxx];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "C++ interface to the GLib library";
-
-    homepage = http://gtkmm.org/;
-
-    license = "LGPLv2+";
-
-    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibmm/2.28.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibmm/2.28.x.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3c2c1fbadce4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibmm/2.28.x.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl_gnome, pkgconfig, glib, libsigcxx, xz }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = src.pkgname;
+
+  src = fetchurl_gnome {
+    project = "glibmm";
+    major = "2"; minor = "28"; patchlevel = "2"; extension = "xz";
+    sha256 = "1qyb8jb9avfzcdyhldxx7qljjhf30czwnh7c2r9p0x4nin2rjkpq";
+  };
+
+  buildNativeInputs = [pkgconfig xz];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [glib libsigcxx];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "C++ interface to the GLib library";
+
+    homepage = http://gtkmm.org/;
+
+    license = "LGPLv2+";
+
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [urkud raskin];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e7710c9bd598..ee57e1098a61 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3542,7 +3542,7 @@ let
 
     glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/glib/2.28.x.nix { };
 
-    glibmm = callPackage ../development/libraries/glibmm/2.22.x.nix { };
+    glibmm = callPackage ../development/libraries/glibmm/2.28.x.nix { };
 
     atk = callPackage ../development/libraries/atk/1.32.x.nix { };