diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libfilezilla/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libfilezilla/default.nix
index bbbcb81797af..70fa8a793ba2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libfilezilla/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libfilezilla/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { lib, stdenv
-, fetchurl
+, fetchsvn
 , autoreconfHook
 , gettext
 , gnutls
@@ -10,13 +10,14 @@
 , ApplicationServices
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "libfilezilla";
-  version = "0.47.0";
+  version = "0.49.0";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://download.filezilla-project.org/${pname}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    hash = "sha256-YYpYa2E773EKYzxCv92mFmbLsPyKkq1JA2HQvJHFg0E=";
+  src = fetchsvn {
+    url = "https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/libfilezilla/trunk";
+    rev = "11192";
+    hash = "sha256-fm1cenGwYcPz0TtMzbPXrZA7nAzwo8toBNA9cW2Gnh0=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkg-config ];