diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/minixml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/minixml/default.nix
index 6779268dbdc1..c2a61ec6fc1c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/minixml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/minixml/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation  rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "mxml-${version}";
-  version = "2.9";
+  version = "2.12";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://www.msweet.org/files/project3/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "14pzhlfidj5v1qbxy7a59yn4jz9pnjrs2zwalz228jsq7ijm9vfd";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "michaelrsweet";
+    repo = "mxml";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1m8z503vnfpm576gjpp1h7zmx09n50if2i28v24yx80j820ip94s";
   };
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A small XML library";
     homepage = https://www.msweet.org/mxml/;