diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/cli-visualizer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/cli-visualizer/default.nix
index e0d284c838e3..6602adb2f2ab 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/cli-visualizer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/cli-visualizer/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 { stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fftw, ncurses5, libpulseaudio, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "1.7";
+  version = "1.8";
   name = "cli-visualizer-${version}";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "dpayne";
     repo = "cli-visualizer";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "06z6vj87xjmacppcxvgm47wby6mv1hnbqav8lpdk9v5s1hmmp1cr";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "003mbbwsz43mg3d7llphpypqa9g7rs1p1cdbqi1mbc2bfrc1gcq2";
   };
 
   postPatch = ''