diff --git a/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-cjk/template b/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-cjk/template
index 22494e46b3e..70d8e74a6ec 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-cjk/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-cjk/template
@@ -1,21 +1,28 @@
 # Template file for 'noto-fonts-cjk'
 pkgname=noto-fonts-cjk
-version=20190416
-revision=2
-_githash=be6c059ac1587e556e2412b27f5155c8eb3ddbe6
-wrksrc="noto-cjk-${_githash}"
+# set to the date of the latest release packaged
+version=20220127
+revision=1
+# the sans and serif variants are released on separate tags
+_sans_version=2.004
+_serif_version=2.001
+create_wrksrc=yes
 depends="font-util"
 short_desc="Google Noto CJK Fonts"
-maintainer="Peter Bui <pnutzh4x0r@gmail.com>"
+maintainer="classabbyamp <void@placeviolette.net>"
 license="OFL-1.1"
 homepage="https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/"
-#changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/master/NEWS"
-#changelog_prior="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/master/HISTORY"
-distfiles="https://codeload.github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/tar.gz/${_githash}>${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=2ad7fe638b1e99255c3d873dc7e0b8434a896f571abdec1a0698cfab3ef618fe
+changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/main/Sans/NEWS.md
+ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/main/Serif/NEWS.md"
+distfiles="https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/releases/download/Sans${_sans_version}/03_NotoSansCJK-OTC.zip
+ https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/releases/download/Serif${_serif_version}/04_NotoSerifCJKOTC.zip"
+checksum="528f4e1b25ff3badb0321b38d015d954c4c0de926c7830ef50e4a1948f6a3eed
+ 2f0630f88752d50b11a427bdd71f20f7178219e647c56cbaf36c032dbe1ed9d0"
 font_dirs="/usr/share/fonts/noto"
 
 do_install() {
-	install -Dm644 Noto*.ttc -t ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/fonts/noto
+	vmkdir usr/share/fonts/noto
+	vcopy "*.ttc" usr/share/fonts/noto
+	vcopy "OTC/*.ttc" usr/share/fonts/noto
 	vlicense LICENSE
 }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-cjk/update b/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-cjk/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2586e164145
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-cjk/update
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# not perfect, but good enough
+version="${_sans_version}"
+pattern='/archive/refs/tags/Sans\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.gz")'