diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/apr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/apr/default.nix
index 07a565596bbc..1893a2c94136 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/apr/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/apr/default.nix
@@ -5,21 +5,19 @@ let
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "apr-1.4.6";
+  name = "apr-1.4.8";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://apache/apr/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    md5 = "ffee70a111fd07372982b0550bbb14b7";
+    md5 = "ce2ab01a0c3cdb71cf0a6326b8654f41";
   };
 
   patches = optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ ./darwin_fix_configure.patch ];
 
   configureFlags =
-    # Don't use accept4 because it's only supported on Linux >= 2.6.28.
-    [ "apr_cv_accept4=no" ]
     # Including the Windows headers breaks unistd.h.
     # Based on ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/release/libapr1/libapr1-1.3.8-2-src.tar.bz2
-    ++ stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin") "ac_cv_header_windows_h=no";
+    stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin") "ac_cv_header_windows_h=no";
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://apr.apache.org/;