diff --git a/pkgs/servers/computing/slurm/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/computing/slurm/default.nix
index 69afd479af30..3b695c46e777 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/computing/slurm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/computing/slurm/default.nix
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "slurm-${version}";
-  version = "17.02.6";
+  version = "17.02.9";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.schedmd.com/downloads/latest/slurm-17.02.6.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1sp4xg15jc569r6dh61svgk2fmy3ndcgr5358yryajslf1w14mzh";
+    url = "https://download.schedmd.com/slurm/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0w8v7fzbn7b3f9kg6lcj2jpkzln3vcv9s2cz37xbdifz0m2p1x7s";
   };
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     rm -f $out/lib/*.la $out/lib/slurm/*.la
   '';
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://www.schedmd.com/;
     description = "Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management";