diff --git a/srcpkgs/blender/template b/srcpkgs/blender/template
index e35ec365390..2c5b6d00ebf 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/blender/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/blender/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'blender'
 pkgname=blender
-version=2.73a
-revision=2
+version=2.74
+revision=1
 hostmakedepends="cmake"
 # XXX missing deps: openimageio, opencolorio
 makedepends="
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ build_style="cmake"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://blender.org"
-distfiles="http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/blender.org/source/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=acfafbe775699d6752d1126522fc573382002b2f8583cd4df4d928995bbc9184
+distfiles="http://download.blender.org/source/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=0ca3ceb6c656ae7c556f81ab0994e6aa7a6c64324824cbc94a87caf36f0a119d
 short_desc="3D graphics creation suite"
 configure_args="
 -DWITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE=OFF