diff --git a/desktop/py3status/py3status.SlackBuild b/desktop/py3status/py3status.SlackBuild
index bde6aadbbb..f98e9a9547 100644
--- a/desktop/py3status/py3status.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/py3status/py3status.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for py3status
 
-# Copyright 2014 Dimitris Zlatanidis Greece-Orestiada
+# Copyright 2014 Dimitris Zlatanidis Orestiada, Greece
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=py3status
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.5}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.3}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/desktop/py3status/py3status.info b/desktop/py3status/py3status.info
index 65791c5ef7..c29054f181 100644
--- a/desktop/py3status/py3status.info
+++ b/desktop/py3status/py3status.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="py3status"
-VERSION="1.5"
+VERSION="2.3"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ultrabug/py3status"
-DOWNLOAD="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/py3status/py3status-1.5.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="8c2751bc30b13106900e09630b1d2bf6"
+DOWNLOAD="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/py3status/py3status-2.3.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="89ad395268c7791ff5d36412b1efeeb9"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="pysetuptools"