diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/freenet/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/freenet/default.nix
index 4e7057116773..80f8eb840f13 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/freenet/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/freenet/default.nix
@@ -1,56 +1,67 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ant, jdk }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, ant, jdk, makeWrapper }:
 
 let
-  # The .gitmodules in freenet-official-20130413-eccc9b3198
-  # points to freenet-contrib-staging-ce3b7d5
   freenet_ext = fetchurl {
     url = https://downloads.freenetproject.org/latest/freenet-ext.jar;
-    sha1 = "507ab3f6ee91f47c187149136fb6d6e98f9a8c7f";
+    sha256 = "17ypljdvazgx2z6hhswny1lxfrknysz3x6igx8vl3xgdpvbb7wij";
   };
 
   bcprov = fetchurl {
-    url = http://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bcprov-jdk15on-148.jar;
-    sha256 = "12129q8rmqwlvj6z4j0gc3w0hq5ccrkf2gdlsggp3iws7cp7wjw0";
+    url = https://downloads.freenetproject.org/latest/bcprov-jdk15on-152.jar;
+    sha256 = "0wqpdcvcfh939fk8yr033ijzr1vjbp6ydlnv5ly8jiykwj0x3i0d";
   };
+  seednodes = fetchurl {
+    url = https://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/opennet/seednodes.fref;
+    sha256 = "109zn9w8axdkjwhkkcm2s8dvib0mq0n8imjgs3r8hvi128cjsmg9";
+  };
+  version = "build01470";
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "freenet-20130413-eccc9b3198";
+  name = "freenet-${version}";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = https://github.com/freenet/fred-official/tarball/eccc9b3198;
-    name = "freenet-official-eccc9b3198.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0x0s8gmb95770l7968r99sq0588vf0n1687ivc2hixar19cw620y";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = https://github.com/freenet/fred;
+    rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
+    sha256 = "1b6e6fec2b9a729d4a25605fa142df9ea42e59b379ff665f580e32c6178c9746";
   };
 
   patchPhase = ''
     cp ${freenet_ext} lib/freenet/freenet-ext.jar
-    cp ${bcprov} lib/bcprov.jar
+    cp ${bcprov} lib/bcprov-jdk15on-152.jar
 
     sed '/antcall.*-ext/d' -i build.xml
+    sed 's/@unknown@/${version}/g' -i build-clean.xml
   '';
 
-  buildInputs = [ ant jdk ];
+  buildInputs = [ ant jdk makeWrapper ];
 
   buildPhase = "ant package-only";
 
+  freenetWrapper = ./freenetWrapper;
+
   installPhase = ''
     mkdir -p $out/share/freenet $out/bin
-    cp lib/bcprov.jar $out/share/freenet
+    cp lib/bcprov-jdk15on-152.jar $out/share/freenet
     cp lib/freenet/freenet-ext.jar $out/share/freenet
     cp dist/freenet.jar $out/share/freenet
 
-    cat <<EOF > $out/bin/freenet
+    cat <<EOF > $out/bin/freenet.wrapped
     #!${stdenv.shell}
-    ${jdk.jre}/bin/java -cp $out/share/freenet/bcprov.jar:$out/share/freenet/freenet-ext.jar:$out/share/freenet/freenet.jar \\
+    ${jdk.jre}/bin/java -cp $out/share/freenet/bcprov-jdk15on-152.jar:$out/share/freenet/freenet-ext.jar:$out/share/freenet/freenet.jar \\
       -Xmx1024M freenet.node.NodeStarter
     EOF
-    chmod +x $out/bin/freenet
+    chmod +x $out/bin/freenet.wrapped
+    makeWrapper $freenetWrapper $out/bin/freenet \
+      --set FREENET_ROOT "$out" \
+      --set FREENET_SEEDNODES "${seednodes}"
   '';
 
   meta = {
     description = "Decentralised and censorship-resistant network";
     homepage = https://freenetproject.org/;
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.doublec ];
     platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/freenet/freenetWrapper b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/freenet/freenetWrapper
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..c1667f158b97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/freenet/freenetWrapper
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+export FREENET_HOME="$HOME/.local/share/freenet"
+if [ -n "$XDG_DATA_HOME" ]
+  then export FREENET_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME/freenet"
+fi
+
+if [ ! -d $FREENET_HOME ]; then
+  mkdir -p $FREENET_HOME
+fi
+
+cp -u $FREENET_SEEDNODES $FREENET_HOME/seednodes.fref
+chmod u+rw $FREENET_HOME/seednodes.fref
+
+cd $FREENET_HOME
+exec $FREENET_ROOT/bin/freenet.wrapped "$@"