diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/hyphen/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/hyphen/default.nix
index 214149fc1f23..1be6ebb50247 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/hyphen/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/hyphen/default.nix
@@ -1,33 +1,31 @@
 {
   lib,
   stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  autoreconfHook,
   perl,
 }:
 
-let
-  version = "2.8.8";
-  folder =
-    with builtins;
-    let
-      parts = splitVersion version;
-    in
-    concatStringsSep "." [
-      (elemAt parts 0)
-      (elemAt parts 1)
-    ];
-in
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "hyphen";
-  inherit version;
+  version = "2.8.9";
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ perl ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    autoreconfHook
+    perl
+  ];
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/${folder}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "01ap9pr6zzzbp4ky0vy7i1983fwyqy27pl0ld55s30fdxka3ciih";
+  strictDeps = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "hunspell";
+    repo = "hyphen";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-F7PJQjEiE5t5i1gi5B8wzrwAJQl8FWzopRA8uDsaZBc=";
   };
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   # Do not install the en_US dictionary.
   installPhase = ''
     runHook preInstall
@@ -36,14 +34,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     make install-includeHEADERS
 
     # license
-    install -D -m644 COPYING "$out/share/licenses/${pname}/LICENSE"
+    install -D -m644 COPYING "$out/share/licenses/hyphen/LICENSE"
     runHook postInstall
   '';
 
   meta = {
+    changelog = "https://github.com/hunspell/hyphen/blob/${finalAttrs.src.tag}/NEWS";
     description = "Text hyphenation library";
     mainProgram = "substrings.pl";
-    homepage = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/hunspell/hyphen";
     platforms = lib.platforms.all;
     license = with lib.licenses; [
       gpl2
@@ -51,4 +50,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       mpl11
     ];
   };
-}
+})