diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
index 8e148f1189cd..903af0bfd5f2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name    = "luajit-${version}";
-  version = "2.0.4";
+  version = "2.1.0-beta1";
+  luaversion = "5.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url    = "http://luajit.org/download/LuaJIT-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0zc0y7p6nx1c0pp4nhgbdgjljpfxsb5kgwp4ysz22l1p2bms83v2";
+    sha256 = "06170d38387c59d1292001a166e7f5524f5c5deafa8705a49a46fa42905668dd";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
@@ -24,13 +25,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   configurePhase = false;
   buildFlags     = [ "amalg" ]; # Build highly optimized version
-  installPhase   = "make install PREFIX=$out";
+  installPhase   = ''
+    make install INSTALL_INC=$out/include PREFIX=$out
+    ln -s $out/bin/luajit* $out/bin/luajit
+  '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "high-performance JIT compiler for Lua 5.1";
     homepage    = http://luajit.org;
     license     = licenses.mit;
     platforms   = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.thoughtpolice ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers ; [ thoughtpolice smironov ];
   };
 }