diff --git a/srcpkgs/blender/template b/srcpkgs/blender/template
index 8092d34a92f..d9c8337c344 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/blender/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/blender/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'blender'
 pkgname=blender
-version=2.71
-revision=4
+version=2.72
+revision=1
 hostmakedepends="cmake"
 # XXX missing deps: openimageio, opencolorio
 makedepends="
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ build_style="cmake"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://blender.org"
-distfiles="http://download.blender.org/source/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=1d7d5a67a8ce5d258534fc0d426c30dbff56995b5648deba98b21b446f6e5889
+distfiles="http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/blender.org/source/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=17a90210180d6ffa189b3a0546a6b0103aeae3df49ecb5356cc05b5bb455d8b9
 short_desc="3D graphics creation suite"
 configure_args="
 -DWITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE=OFF
@@ -35,4 +35,3 @@ configure_args="
 -DPYTHON_LIBPATH=/usr/lib
 -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=python3.4m
 -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/python3.4m"
-wrksrc="$pkgname-v$version"