diff --git a/development/vala/slack-desc b/development/vala/slack-desc
index 399910df16..b0446fb20b 100644
--- a/development/vala/slack-desc
+++ b/development/vala/slack-desc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
     |-----handy-ruler----------------------------------------------------|
 vala: Vala (Compiler for the GObject type system)
-vala: 
+vala:
 vala: Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern
 vala: programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing
 vala: any additional runtime requirements and without using a different
diff --git a/development/vala/vala.SlackBuild b/development/vala/vala.SlackBuild
index 4470b7154a..359d990a13 100644
--- a/development/vala/vala.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/vala/vala.SlackBuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-#
+
 # Slackware build script for Vala
-#
+
 # Copyright 2009-2010  Erik W. Hanson, Minneapolis, MN, USA
 # All rights reserved.
 #
@@ -23,16 +23,14 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=vala
-VERSION=0.7.10
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.11.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
-# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
     i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
     arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
-    # Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
        *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
   esac
 fi
@@ -80,7 +78,7 @@ make
 make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG
 
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
-for i in `find $PKG/usr/man -type l` ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
+for i in $(find $PKG/usr/man -type l) ; do ln -s $(readlink $i).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL MAINTAINERS NEWS README THANKS \
diff --git a/development/vala/vala.info b/development/vala/vala.info
index b958a12a65..ccbbf7b514 100644
--- a/development/vala/vala.info
+++ b/development/vala/vala.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="vala"
-VERSION="0.7.10"
+VERSION="0.11.2"
 HOMEPAGE="http://live.gnome.org/Vala"
-DOWNLOAD="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vala/0.7/vala-0.7.10.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="6e807644f500d6605a5ee4e1612dd187"
+DOWNLOAD="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vala/0.11/vala-0.11.2.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="ef0b6dc4a5fe4caa57e0d029bb9ea8dd"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Erik Hanson"
 EMAIL="erik@slackbuilds.org"
-APPROVED="dsomero"
+APPROVED="rworkman"