diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix
index f1e57272d0b8..53474190ce96 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix
@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, boost, libxml2, pkgconfig, curl, autoreconfHook }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, boost, libxml2, pkgconfig, docbook2x, curl, autoreconfHook, cppunit }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "libcmis-${version}";
-  version = "0.5.0";
+  pname = "libcmis";
+  version = "0.5.2";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/libcmis/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1dprvk4fibylv24l7gr49gfqbkfgmxynvgssvdcycgpf7n8h4zm8";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "tdf";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0s6prfh55hn11vrs72ph1gs01v0vngly81pvyjm5v1sgwymdxx57";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./gcc5.patch ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig docbook2x ];
+  buildInputs = [ boost libxml2 curl cppunit ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [ boost libxml2 curl ];
-  configureFlags = [ "--without-man" "--with-boost=${boost.dev}" "--disable-werror" "--disable-tests" ];
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-werror"
+    "DOCBOOK2MAN=${docbook2x}/bin/docbook2man"
+  ];
 
-  # Cppcheck cannot find all the include files (use --check-config for details)
-  doCheck = false;
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "C++ client library for the CMIS interface";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/gcc5.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/gcc5.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 952f8e1abd70..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/gcc5.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-diff -urN libcmis-0.5.0.org/m4/boost.m4 libcmis-0.5.0/m4/boost.m4
---- libcmis-0.5.0.org/m4/boost.m4      2014-03-28 15:19:57.000000000 +0100
-+++ libcmis-0.5.0/m4/boost.m4  2015-09-21 14:42:25.149565264 +0200
-@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@
- dnl everything else.
- dnl Cannot use 'dnl' after [$4] because a trailing dnl may break AC_CACHE_CHECK
- (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD |
-+  grep -v '#' |
-   tr -d '\r' |
-+  tr -s '\n' ' ' |
-   $SED -n -e "$1" >conftest.i 2>&1],
-   [$3],
-   [$4])
-@@ -201,7 +203,7 @@
-   AC_CACHE_CHECK([for Boost's header version],
-     [boost_cv_lib_version],
-     [m4_pattern_allow([^BOOST_LIB_VERSION$])dnl
--     _BOOST_SED_CPP([/^boost-lib-version = /{s///;s/\"//g;p;g;}],
-+     _BOOST_SED_CPP([[/^boost-lib-version = /{s///;s/[\" ]//g;p;q;}]],
-                     [#include <boost/version.hpp>
- boost-lib-version = BOOST_LIB_VERSION],
-     [boost_cv_lib_version=`cat conftest.i`])])
-@@ -209,7 +211,7 @@
-     boost_major_version=`echo "$boost_cv_lib_version" | sed 's/_//;s/_.*//'`
-     case $boost_major_version in #(
-       '' | *[[!0-9]]*)
--        AC_MSG_ERROR([invalid value: boost_major_version=$boost_major_version])
-+        AC_MSG_ERROR([invalid value: boost_major_version='$boost_major_version'])
-         ;;
-     esac
- fi
-@@ -930,6 +932,7 @@
-   # the same defines as GCC's).
-   # TODO: Move the test on GCC 4.4 up once it's released.
-   for i in \
-+    _BOOST_gcc_test(5, 2) \
-     _BOOST_gcc_test(4, 3) \
-     _BOOST_gcc_test(4, 2) \
-     _BOOST_gcc_test(4, 1) \