diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index d2014a48b2..7e34d49c4d 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ libjasper.so.1 libjasper-1.900.1_1
 librecode.so.0 librecode-3.6_1
 libenca.so.0 libenca-1.13_1
 libwavpack.so.1 libwavpack-4.60.1_1
-libvala-0.18.so.0 libvala-0.18.0_1
+libvala-0.20.so.0 libvala-0.20.0_1
 libSDL_net-1.2.so.0 SDL_net-1.2.7_1
 libmodplug.so.1 libmodplug-0.8.8_1
 libfetch.so libfetch-2.33_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/vala/libvala.template b/srcpkgs/vala/libvala.template
index dc47c3ef66..8b183d13ed 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/vala/libvala.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/vala/libvala.template
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'libvala'.
 #
 short_desc="${short_desc} - shared library"
-long_desc="${long_desc}
 
- This package contains the shared library."
-
-do_install()
-{
+do_install() {
 	install -d ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
 	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/*.so* ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
 }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/vala/template b/srcpkgs/vala/template
index 290af3d1ca..1111c6d64c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/vala/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/vala/template
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 # Template file for 'vala'
 pkgname=vala
-version=0.18.1
+version=0.20.0
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--enable-vapigen"
-makedepends="pkg-config flex libxslt glib-devel"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config flex libxslt"
+makedepends="libfl-devel libglib-devel"
 subpackages="libvala vala-devel"
 short_desc="Compiler for the GObject type system"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://live.gnome.org/Vala"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
-distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/vala/0.18/vala-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=7f5e2e8ca03f9fa2cf13acaf93bfdc3a7ad0a10b000a337ba9c6bdc021bdca32
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/vala/${version%.*}/vala-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=2c464ff5b567861b3116602891ff83439e570ce42d7c9b3b76e36adc17f2848c
 long_desc="
  Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming
  language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime
diff --git a/srcpkgs/vala/vala-devel.template b/srcpkgs/vala/vala-devel.template
index c763f9f524..48f64cf49c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/vala/vala-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/vala/vala-devel.template
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'vala-devel'.
 #
-depends="pkg-config glib-devel vala>=${version}"
+depends="libglib-devel vala>=${version}"
 short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
-long_desc="${long_desc}
-
- This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
-
-noarch=yes
 
 do_install() {
 	vmove usr/include usr