diff --git a/srcpkgs/cronutils/update b/srcpkgs/cronutils/update
index aef5374e1e6..f1c5f576fb4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cronutils/update
+++ b/srcpkgs/cronutils/update
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-site="https://api.github.com/repos/google/cronutils/tags"
-pattern='"name":\s*"version\/\K[^\d]*([\d\.]+)(?=")'
+site=https://github.com/google/cronutils/releases
+pkgname=version/