diff --git a/desktop/ratpoison/ratpoison.SlackBuild b/desktop/ratpoison/ratpoison.SlackBuild
index e19aae9500..686c6f5d60 100644
--- a/desktop/ratpoison/ratpoison.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/ratpoison/ratpoison.SlackBuild
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=ratpoison
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.4.8}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.4.9}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
diff --git a/desktop/ratpoison/ratpoison.info b/desktop/ratpoison/ratpoison.info
index 03cbc986ce..2c74f76f96 100644
--- a/desktop/ratpoison/ratpoison.info
+++ b/desktop/ratpoison/ratpoison.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="ratpoison"
-VERSION="1.4.8"
+VERSION="1.4.9"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/ratpoison/ratpoison-1.4.8.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="2e31e70f08e3a52d4fd9abe9ade36e83"
+DOWNLOAD="http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/ratpoison/ratpoison-1.4.9.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="912b01564d24734e1a68d36e2d85faa4"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""