diff --git a/haskell/xmonad-contrib/xmonad-contrib.SlackBuild b/haskell/xmonad-contrib/xmonad-contrib.SlackBuild
index 9b6a349056..ccbc6d2a24 100644
--- a/haskell/xmonad-contrib/xmonad-contrib.SlackBuild
+++ b/haskell/xmonad-contrib/xmonad-contrib.SlackBuild
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=xmonad-contrib
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.15}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.17.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/haskell/xmonad-contrib/xmonad-contrib.info b/haskell/xmonad-contrib/xmonad-contrib.info
index b00e87fb6c..76068099ec 100644
--- a/haskell/xmonad-contrib/xmonad-contrib.info
+++ b/haskell/xmonad-contrib/xmonad-contrib.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="xmonad-contrib"
-VERSION="0.15"
+VERSION="0.17.0"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.xmonad.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.15/xmonad-contrib-0.15.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="be854e4ad4be47a706c297079b25292b"
+DOWNLOAD="https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.17.0/xmonad-contrib-0.17.0.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="3487e3e4732fc70f3eb70b0df4129db3"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="haskell-extensible-exceptions haskell-old-time haskell-random haskell-semigroups xmonad"
+REQUIRES="haskell-old-time haskell-random haskell-semigroups xmonad"
 MAINTAINER="David Spencer"
 EMAIL="baildon.research@googlemail.com"