diff --git a/extra/gperftools/PKGBUILD b/extra/gperftools/PKGBUILD
index 196704cba..a92adf0c1 100644
--- a/extra/gperftools/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/gperftools/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 #  - hack to skip using v7 assembly on v6
 
 pkgname=gperftools
-pkgver=2.2.1
+pkgver=2.3
 pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc="Fast, multi-threaded malloc() and nifty performance analysis tools"
+pkgdesc="Fast, multi-threaded malloc and nifty performance analysis tools"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/"
 license=('BSD')
@@ -23,13 +23,12 @@ provides=('libtcmalloc.so'
           'libtcmalloc_and_profiler.so'
           'libtcmalloc_minimal.so'
           'libtcmalloc_minimal_debug.so')
-makedepends=('git')
 optdepends=('graphviz: pprof graph generation'
             'gv: pprof postscript generation')
 options=('!libtool')
 source=("https://googledrive.com/host/0B6NtGsLhIcf7MWxMMF9JdTN3UVk/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
         "armv6.patch")
-md5sums=('47cbede9442764f9e8fbc403af6cacfd'
+md5sums=('f54dd119f0e46ac1f13264f8d97adf90'
          '68606edc5920e10930647b8f276fbe88')
 
 prepare() {