diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libHX/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libHX/package.nix
index e95023fc43ca..42a9ce958f86 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libHX/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libHX/package.nix
@@ -1,46 +1,41 @@
 {
   lib,
   stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
-  autoconf,
-  automake,
-  libtool,
+  fetchFromGitea,
+  autoreconfHook,
+  nix-update-script,
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "libHX";
-  version = "3.22";
+  version = "5.2";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/libhx/libHX/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "18w39j528lyg2026dr11f2xxxphy91cg870nx182wbd8cjlqf86c";
+  src = fetchFromGitea {
+    domain = "codeberg.org";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    owner = "jengelh";
+    repo = "libhx";
+    hash = "sha256-z1/D5dkcDc2VIoGCvunUYsLGq3AV6jZ01Edf1vuUx9o=";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    autoconf
-    automake
-    libtool
-  ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    sh autogen.sh
-  '';
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { };
 
   meta = {
-    homepage = "https://libhx.sourceforge.net/";
+    homepage = "https://inai.de/projects/libhx/";
     longDescription = ''
       libHX is a C library (with some C++ bindings available) that provides data structures
       and functions commonly needed, such as maps, deques, linked lists, string formatting
       and autoresizing, option and config file parsing, type checking casts and more.
     '';
-    maintainers = [ ];
+    changelog = "https://codeberg.org/jengelh/libhx/src/branch/master/doc/changelog.rst";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ chillcicada ];
     platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
     license = with lib.licenses; [
       gpl3
       lgpl21Plus
-      wtfpl
+      mit
     ];
   };
-}
+})