diff --git a/srcpkgs/nqp/template b/srcpkgs/nqp/template
index 71b6d4b8621..77e1e8076aa 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/nqp/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/nqp/template
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 # Template file for 'nqp'
 pkgname=nqp
-version=2019.07.1
+version=2019.11
 revision=1
 build_style=configure
 make_check_target=test
 configure_script="perl Configure.pl"
 configure_args="--prefix=/usr --backends=moar"
 hostmakedepends="perl"
-makedepends="MoarVM"
+makedepends="MoarVM libatomic_ops-devel libffi-devel libuv-devel"
 depends="MoarVM-${version}_${revision}"
-short_desc="Not Quite Perl, a lightweight Perl 6-like environment for VMs"
-maintainer="Ruslan <axetwe@gmail.com>"
+short_desc="Lightweight Perl 6-like environment for virtual machines"
+maintainer="Andy Weidenbaum <archbaum@gmail.com>"
 license="Artistic-2.0"
 homepage="https://github.com/perl6/nqp"
 distfiles="https://github.com/perl6/nqp/releases/download/${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=7324e5b84903c5063303a3c9fb6205bdf5f071c9778cc695ea746e7d41b12224
+checksum=b47f911def8aafded041b079ac86e5df23b726c190664c3217c567835f481328
 nocross=yes