diff --git a/desktop/xmobar/xmobar.SlackBuild b/desktop/xmobar/xmobar.SlackBuild
index 69c9376d11..7dd4ecfa09 100755
--- a/desktop/xmobar/xmobar.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/xmobar/xmobar.SlackBuild
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 # Slackware build script for xmobar
 
 # Written by Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
+# Updated by Andy Bailey <bailey@akamai.com>
 # Public domain.
 
 PRGNAM=xmobar
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.11.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}		
 
@@ -59,7 +60,6 @@ find . \
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 runhaskell Setup.lhs configure \
-  --constraint="base<4" \
   --prefix=/usr \
   --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/ghc-$GHC_VERSION \
   --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
diff --git a/desktop/xmobar/xmobar.info b/desktop/xmobar/xmobar.info
index 4fadf4e4cd..77bdf060a3 100644
--- a/desktop/xmobar/xmobar.info
+++ b/desktop/xmobar/xmobar.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="xmobar"
-VERSION="0.9.2"
+VERSION="0.11.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmobar/0.9.2/xmobar-0.9.2.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="1177eef9f032256ccf370239a0703eab"
+DOWNLOAD="http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmobar/0.11.1/xmobar-0.11.1.tar.gz"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM="766fe504909384628321fb7472fdb621"
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-MAINTAINER="Xavier Maillard"
-EMAIL="xma@gnu.org"
+MAINTAINER="Andy Bailey"
+EMAIL="bailey@akamai.com"
 APPROVED="rworkman"