diff --git a/srcpkgs/libui/template b/srcpkgs/libui/template
index 621fcd89d14..f82784f995b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libui/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libui/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'libui'
 pkgname=libui
-version=alpha3.1
+version=alpha4
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ maintainer="Gangsta Cat <grumpy@keemail.me>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="https://github.com/andlabs/libui"
 distfiles="https://github.com/andlabs/libui/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=945ee9abacffafa93b5cf941bddfbe0bd0d4b3a8c7f8b0256779e24249f57679
+checksum=087bbbd73ae4bb1d2e93b7821b92fb0512dd377f5a7478120c79a411a5f4fe99
 
 do_install() {
 	vinstall build/out/libui.so 755 /usr/lib/
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libui/update b/srcpkgs/libui/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c8b43cebe11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libui/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pattern='/libui/archive/[a-z]+\K[\d+.]+(?=.tar.gz)'
+version="${version/*[:alpha:]/}"