diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/compactor/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/compactor/default.nix
index 48f85c80e0e..5d9a658972c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/compactor/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/compactor/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
-{ autoconf, automake, boost, cbor-diag, cddl, fetchFromGitHub, file, libpcap, libtins, libtool, lzma, openssl, pkgconfig, stdenv, tcpdump, wireshark-cli }:
+{ autoconf, automake, boost, cbor-diag, cddl, fetchFromGitHub, file, libctemplate, libmaxminddb
+, libpcap, libtins, libtool, lzma, openssl, pkgconfig, stdenv, tcpdump, wireshark-cli
+}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "compactor-${version}";
-  version = "0.11.1";
+  pname = "compactor";
+  version = "0.12.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "dns-stats";
-    repo = "compactor";
-    rev = "${version}";
-    sha256 = "0bd82956nkpdmfj8f05z37hy7f33cd2nfdxr7s9fgz1xi5flnzjc";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "17p9wsslsh6ifnadvyygr0cgir4q4iirxfz9zpkpbhh76cx2qnay";
   };
 
   # cbor-diag, cddl and wireshark-cli are only used for tests.
@@ -19,14 +21,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     openssl
     libtins
     lzma
+    libctemplate
+    libmaxminddb
   ];
 
-  patchPhase = ''
+  prePatch = ''
     patchShebangs test-scripts/
   '';
 
   preConfigure = ''
-    sh autogen.sh
+    ${stdenv.shell} autogen.sh
     substituteInPlace configure \
       --replace "/usr/bin/file" "${file}/bin/file"
   '';
@@ -35,16 +39,19 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--with-boost-libdir=${boost.out}/lib"
     "--with-boost=${boost.dev}"
   ];
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   doCheck = true;
   preCheck = ''
     substituteInPlace test-scripts/check-live-pcap.sh \
       --replace "/usr/sbin/tcpdump" "${tcpdump}/bin/tcpdump"
-  '';
+    rm test-scripts/same-tshark-output.sh
+  ''; # TODO: https://github.com/dns-stats/compactor/issues/49  (failing test)
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Tools to capture DNS traffic and record it in C-DNS files";
-    homepage    = http://dns-stats.org/;
+    homepage    = "http://dns-stats.org/";
+    changelog   = "https://github.com/dns-stats/${pname}/raw/${version}/ChangeLog.txt";
     license     = [ licenses.boost licenses.mpl20 licenses.openssl ];
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ fdns ];
     platforms   = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;