diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/apheleia/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/apheleia/default.nix
index 658a18c05867..a5f06efa33cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/apheleia/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/apheleia/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,23 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, emacs, lib }:
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, emacs
+}:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "apheleia";
-  version = "2021-05-23";
+  version = "0.0.0+unstable=2021-08-08";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "raxod502";
-    repo = "apheleia";
-    rev = "f865c165dac606187a66b2b25a57d5099b452120";
-    sha256 = "sha256-n37jJsNOGhSjUtQysG3NVIjjayhbOa52iTXBc8SyKXE=";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "8e022c67fea4248f831c678b31c19646cbcbbf6f";
+    hash = "sha256-Put/BBQ7V423C18UIVfaM17T+TDWtAxRZi7WI8doPJw=";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ emacs ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    emacs
+  ];
 
   buildPhase = ''
     runHook preBuild
@@ -26,11 +32,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     runHook postInstall
   '';
 
-  meta = {
-    description = "Reformat buffer stably";
+  meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/raxod502/apheleia";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ leungbk ];
+    description = "Asynchronous buffer reformat";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ AndersonTorres leungbk ];
     platforms = emacs.meta.platforms;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
index 1140eb42c9c8..690b5da49b2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@
 
   # Packages made the classical callPackage way
 
+  apheleia = callPackage ./apheleia { };
+
   ebuild-mode = callPackage ./ebuild-mode { };
 
   emacspeak = callPackage ./emacspeak { };