diff --git a/srcpkgs/blender/template b/srcpkgs/blender/template
index 2f5b1eae289..92a62103f6d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/blender/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/blender/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'blender'
 pkgname=blender
-version=2.78
-revision=4
+version=2.78a
+revision=1
 build_style="cmake"
 makedepends="
  libgomp-devel libpng-devel tiff-devel python3-devel glu-devel
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://blender.org"
 distfiles="http://download.blender.org/source/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=17863e1ccb3bfdcc932d37cf9e525318130064c756cfb92a9ab479780d3ed441
+checksum=014a14b1ba00c0e651f106469b2e5dd444f11be5a7af48056f0ed59de90cceaf
 
 pycompile_version="$py3_ver"
 pycompile_dirs="/usr/share/blender/$version/scripts"