diff --git a/testing/ampy/APKBUILD b/testing/ampy/APKBUILD
index 96476402190b1d300eba3b74f11fb6c0b4789ef6..6298668ce5a811917b459f26ee00d93ba1554e9a 100644
--- a/testing/ampy/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/ampy/APKBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Marian Buschsieweke <marian.buschsieweke@ovgu.de>
 pkgname=ampy
-pkgver=0.20170704
+pkgver=0.20171212
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Utility to interact with a MicroPython board over a serial connection"
 url="https://github.com/adafruit/ampy"
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ depends="python3 py3-serial py3-click py-setuptools"
 makedepends="python3-dev"
 install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
-source="https://github.com/adafruit/${pkgname}/archive/master.zip"
+_commit="d3df5f57398c581f8a6c1b930b740fd7060e6833"
+source="https://github.com/adafruit/${pkgname}/archive/${_commit}/master.tar.gz"
 
-builddir="$srcdir/$pkgname-master"
+builddir="${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${_commit}"
 
 prepare() {
 	cd "$builddir"
@@ -34,4 +35,4 @@ package() {
 		"$pkgdir"/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/ || return 1
 }
 
-sha512sums="eb73d5a7cd385860de0b341dc344ba26478dbbd68385718c96025ddbf3c831487ef039fe44b1bced46409bcee31fd4a8f3343de69489545e2aa069c363b1b368  master.zip"
+sha512sums="b075745030e924be6bc0eb83fbb2960f27932dd44399a8fe6ce1e54bfbb2bdeba9c159db1add337023327a86ca3808479873afc92ff99b9c024e244cb53bafd5  master.tar.gz"