diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/default.nix
index 21b55e6e7a01..7b28462d5527 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/default.nix
@@ -1,28 +1,27 @@
 { stdenv, fetchgit, perl, makeWrapper, makeDesktopItem
-, which, perlPackages
+, which, perlPackages, boost
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "1.2.9";
+  version = "1.3.0";
   name = "slic3r-${version}";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "git://github.com/alexrj/Slic3r";
-    rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
-    sha256 = "1z8h11k29b7z49z5k8ikyfiijyycy1q3krlzi8hfd0vdybvymw21";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "1pg4jxzb7f58ls5s8mygza8kqdap2c50kwlsdkf28bz1xi611zbi";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    ./gcc6.patch
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = with perlPackages; [ perl makeWrapper which
+  buildInputs = 
+  [boost] ++ 
+  (with perlPackages; [ perl makeWrapper which
     EncodeLocale MathClipper ExtUtilsXSpp threads
     MathConvexHullMonotoneChain MathGeometryVoronoi MathPlanePath Moo
     IOStringy ClassXSAccessor Wx GrowlGNTP NetDBus ImportInto XMLSAX
     ExtUtilsMakeMaker OpenGL WxGLCanvas ModuleBuild LWP
     ExtUtilsCppGuess ModuleBuildWithXSpp ExtUtilsTypemapsDefault
-  ];
+    DevelChecklib locallib
+  ]);
 
   desktopItem = makeDesktopItem {
     name = "slic3r";
@@ -34,6 +33,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     categories = "Application;Development;";
   };
 
+  prePatch = ''
+    # In nix ioctls.h isn't available from the standard kernel-headers package
+    # on other distributions. As the copy in glibc seems to be identical to the
+    # one in the kernel, we use that one instead.
+    sed -i 's|"/usr/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h"|<asm-generic/ioctls.h>|g' xs/src/libslic3r/GCodeSender.cpp
+  '';
+
   buildPhase = ''
     export SLIC3R_NO_AUTO=true
     export LD=$CXX
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/gcc6.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/gcc6.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f382a252f0d0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/gcc6.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-diff --git i/xs/src/libslic3r/Config.hpp w/xs/src/libslic3r/Config.hpp
-index 49e999b..d9b65d8 100644
---- i/xs/src/libslic3r/Config.hpp
-+++ w/xs/src/libslic3r/Config.hpp
-@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class ConfigOptionFloat : public ConfigOption
-     
-     bool deserialize(std::string str) {
-         std::istringstream iss(str);
--        return iss >> this->value;
-+        return bool(iss >> this->value);
-     };
- };
- 
-@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ class ConfigOptionInt : public ConfigOption
-     
-     bool deserialize(std::string str) {
-         std::istringstream iss(str);
--        return iss >> this->value;
-+        return bool(iss >> this->value);
-     };
- };
- 
-@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ class ConfigOptionPercent : public ConfigOption
-     bool deserialize(std::string str) {
-         // don't try to parse the trailing % since it's optional
-         std::istringstream iss(str);
--        return iss >> this->value;
-+        return bool(iss >> this->value);
-     };
- };
- 
-@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ class ConfigOptionFloatOrPercent : public ConfigOption
-     bool deserialize(std::string str) {
-         this->percent = str.find_first_of("%") != std::string::npos;
-         std::istringstream iss(str);
--        return iss >> this->value;
-+        return bool(iss >> this->value);
-     };
- };
-