diff --git a/pkgs/applications/office/ledger/3.0.nix b/pkgs/applications/office/ledger/default.nix
similarity index 78%
rename from pkgs/applications/office/ledger/3.0.nix
rename to pkgs/applications/office/ledger/default.nix
index 6118d377a79f..34aa7c769d01 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/office/ledger/3.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/office/ledger/default.nix
@@ -2,16 +2,18 @@
 , texinfo, gnused }:
 
 let
-  rev = "5961384";
+  version = "3.1";
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "ledger-3.0.4.${rev}";
+  name = "ledger-${version}";
 
+  # NOTE: fetchgit because ledger has submodules not included in the
+  # default github tarball.
   src = fetchgit {
-    url = "git://github.com/ledger/ledger.git";
-    inherit rev;
-    sha256 = "0fmmhr3as4v2kb6h64k1fq979080cqhd75jvxfg7axk2mylb6b3q";
+    url = "https://github.com/ledger/ledger.git";
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1l5y4k830jyw7n1nnhssci3qahq091fj5cxcr77znk20nclz851s";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ cmake boost gmp mpfr libedit python texinfo gnused ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 283841873859..5e6a16aaf70b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9945,8 +9945,9 @@ let
 
   links = callPackage ../applications/networking/browsers/links { };
 
-  ledger = callPackage ../applications/office/ledger/2.6.3.nix { };
-  ledger3 = callPackage ../applications/office/ledger/3.0.nix { };
+  ledger2 = callPackage ../applications/office/ledger/2.6.3.nix { };
+  ledger3 = callPackage ../applications/office/ledger { };
+  ledger = ledger3;
 
   lighttable = callPackage ../applications/editors/lighttable {};