diff --git a/libraries/libvterm/libvterm.SlackBuild b/libraries/libvterm/libvterm.SlackBuild
index a6f2d20816..530cea9d15 100644
--- a/libraries/libvterm/libvterm.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/libvterm/libvterm.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=libvterm
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1b745d29d45623aa8d22a7b9288c7b0e331c7088}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-20160104}
+SRCREV=a9c7c6fd20fa35e0ad3e0e98901ca12dfca9c25c
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -59,9 +60,9 @@ set -e
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
-rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz || tar xvf $CWD/$VERSION.tar.gz
-cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$SRCREV
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+cd $PRGNAM-$SRCREV
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
diff --git a/libraries/libvterm/libvterm.info b/libraries/libvterm/libvterm.info
index 0eb752a569..4b2254ebfc 100644
--- a/libraries/libvterm/libvterm.info
+++ b/libraries/libvterm/libvterm.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="libvterm"
-VERSION="1b745d29d45623aa8d22a7b9288c7b0e331c7088"
+VERSION="20160104"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/neovim/libvterm"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/neovim/libvterm/archive/1b745d29d45623aa8d22a7b9288c7b0e331c7088.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="811acef31278e3b174bbb841ccc75af8"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/neovim/libvterm/archive/a9c7c6fd20fa35e0ad3e0e98901ca12dfca9c25c/libvterm-20160104.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="8ee876d23b10d285e8c3ff699394c539"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""