diff --git a/srcpkgs/blender/template b/srcpkgs/blender/template
index 566a436509a..ec10659d7fe 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/blender/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/blender/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'blender'
 pkgname=blender
-version=2.70a
-revision=2
+version=2.71
+revision=1
 wrksrc="${pkgname}-v${version}"
 hostmakedepends="cmake"
 # XXX missing deps: openexr, openimageio, opencolorio
@@ -14,9 +14,8 @@ build_style="cmake"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
 license="GPL"
 homepage="http://blender.org"
-#distfiles="http://download.blender.org/source/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
-distfiles="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/blender/blender-${version}.tar.gz/12858464ee9347d9883982973b1689d9/blender-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=eb2d82e4bace4028e05eef2ac9799104231eafd91f1500b91c32471bac8cf3e5
+distfiles="http://download.blender.org/source/${pkgname}-v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=beaa502c3fe23da963c745247e4d28fed6f3fafd483452d89deaab2166100523
 short_desc="3D graphics creation suite"
 configure_args="
 -DWITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE=OFF
@@ -36,3 +35,8 @@ configure_args="
 -DPYTHON_LIBPATH=/usr/lib
 -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=python3.4m
 -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/python3.4m"
+
+pre_install() {
+	# XXX fails to generate blender.1 properly
+	python3 ${wrksrc}/doc/manpage/blender.1.py ${wrksrc}/build/bin/blender ${wrksrc}/build/bin/blender.1
+}