diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 75fb3f2a65..f930eb0314 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ libsord-0.so.0 libsord-0.5.0_1
 libgiggle.so.0 libgiggle-0.6.1_1
 libgiggle-git.so.0 libgiggle-0.6.1_1
 libwine.so.1 libwine-1.6_1
-libwv-1.2.so.3 libwv-1.2.4_1
+libwv-1.2.so.4 libwv-1.2.9_1
 libabiword-3.0.so libabiword-3.0.0_1
 libmpg123.so.0 libmpg123-1.13.4_2_1
 libopenal.so.1 libopenal-1.13_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wv/template b/srcpkgs/wv/template
index 58c5cdc89a..f755ccb403 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/wv/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/wv/template
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 # Template file for 'wv'
 pkgname=wv
-version=1.2.4
+version=1.2.9
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
-revision=6
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="libpng-devel>=1.6 libglib-devel libxml2-devel libgsf-devel"
-short_desc="wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files."
+short_desc="A library which allows access to Microsoft Word files"
 homepage="http://wvware.sourceforge.net/"
 license="GPL-3"
 maintainer="davehome <davehome@redthumb.info.tm>"
-distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/${pkgname}ware/${pkgname}-$version.tar.gz"
-checksum=673109910e22d4cf94cc8be4dcb9a0c41b5fbdb1736d4b7bdc7778894d57c2d6
+distfiles="http://www.abisource.com/downloads/${pkgname}/${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=4c730d3b325c0785450dd3a043eeb53e1518598c4f41f155558385dd2635c19d
 long_desc="
  wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and
  parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. (These are the file formats
@@ -20,16 +20,17 @@ long_desc="
 libwv_package() {
 	short_desc+=" - Runtime library"
 	pkg_install() {
-		vmove "usr/lib/*.so*"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"
 	}
 }
 
 wv-devel_package() {
-	depends="libwv>=$version"
+	depends="libgsf-devel libpng-devel zlib-devel libwv>=${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - Development files"
 	pkg_install() {
         	vmove usr/include
         	vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
         	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
 	}
 }