diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix
index 7ff1ab4a5d32..c5386553f4f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix
@@ -2,20 +2,18 @@
 , gnutls, libgcrypt }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "nzbget-0.8.0";
+  name = "nzbget-9.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/nzbget/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "15bxsxdbkml9cqpy6zxgv78ff69l8qrv8r201gmzvylpc1ckjsb4";
+    sha256 = "1r4ys5nmcz1ilkdjdh3r8lawaf96i8spk6hl02h823q9rppvmya0";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libxml2 ncurses libsigcxx libpar2 gnutls libgcrypt ];
 
-  postInstall =
-    ''
-      mkdir -p $out/etc
-      cp nzbget.conf.example $out/etc/
-    '';
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lz";
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://nzbget.sourceforge.net/;