diff --git a/pkgs/servers/neard/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/neard/default.nix
index 3a1e91b26eb0..de317ada6e45 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/neard/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/neard/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, systemd, glib, dbus, libnl, pythonPackages }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, systemd, glib, dbus, libnl, pythonPackages }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "neard-0.15-post-git-20510929";
+  name = "neard-0.16";
 
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url    = "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/nfc/neard.git";
-    sha256 = "07dny1l8n46v0yn30zqa8bkyj8ay01xphc124nhf2sqwbff7nf2m";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/nfc/neard.git/snapshot/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0bpdmyxvd3z54p95apz4bjb5jp8hbc04sicjapcryjwa8mh6pbil";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];