diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
index ad408081e1fd..e50625fa0e89 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/default.nix
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ with stdenv.lib;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "kakoune-unstable-${version}";
-  version = "2018-08-05";
+  version = "2018.09.04";
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     repo = "kakoune";
     owner = "mawww";
-    rev = "ae75032936ed9ffa2bf14589fef115d3d684a7c6";
-    sha256 = "1qm6i8vzr4wjxxdvhr54pan0ysxq1sn880bz8p2w9y6qa91yd3m3";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "08v55hh7whm6hx6a047gszh0h5g35k3r8r52aggv7r2ybzrrw6w1";
   };
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ ncurses asciidoc docbook_xsl libxslt ];