diff --git a/srcpkgs/ipe/template b/srcpkgs/ipe/template
index a4f8f417e36..71e955c0fed 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ipe/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ipe/template
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 # Template file for 'ipe'
 pkgname=ipe
-version=7.1.7
-revision=7
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config git"
+version=7.1.8
+revision=1
+_tools_commit=3c1bfb642f53c114262ed732a5f16f0a8ad1649b
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="qt-devel lua-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel cairo-devel poppler-devel"
 short_desc="Drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS formats"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3, GPL-2"
 homepage="http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/"
-distfiles="https://github.com/otfried/${pkgname}/raw/master/releases/${version%.*}/${pkgname}-${version}-src.tar.gz"
-checksum=ec670cd7f0fa521271fc54bf9b663570d82280bdbe405be6de59535fec7c00d2
+distfiles="https://github.com/otfried/${pkgname}/raw/master/releases/${version%.*}/${pkgname}-${version}-src.tar.gz
+https://github.com/otfried/ipe-tools/archive/$_tools_commit.tar.gz"
+checksum="6a7b8dfb0a012ef9e96b62c317974d910ab6904bef29ae7636d5ac1cb26fa6ff
+7849c0834cff60846cebf4c44fa310e1001ccd6adecd69ada7f0f7d48cd0d114"
 
 post_extract() {
-	# ipe-tools
-	local url="git://github.com/otfried/ipe-tools.git"
-	msg_normal "Fetching source from ${url}...\n"
-	git clone ${url} ipe-tools
+	mv $XBPS_BUILDDIR/ipe-tools* ipe-tools
 
 	sed -i 's/xlocale.h/locale.h/g' src/ipelib/ipeplatform.cpp
 	sed -i '/cstdio/i#include <sys/types.h>' src/include/ipebase.h