diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/valgrind/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/valgrind/default.nix
index 2f28c8b12176..0152d041059d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/valgrind/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/valgrind/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,9 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, perl}:
-
-# Note: I added the Perl dependency for Valgrind 2.1.1.  It's needed
-# to generate some files.  Maybe in stable releases we won't need
-# Perl.
-# Update: 2.4.0 still needs it.
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "valgrind-2.4.0";
+  name = "valgrind-3.0.1";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/valgrind-2.4.0.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "1d0bd81d368789946d32d18a468ea0cf";
+    url = http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.0.1.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "c29efdb7d1a93440f5644a6769054681";
   };
-  buildInputs = [perl];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix b/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
index 60b49a109faf..652465be842d 100644
--- a/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ rec {
   };
 
   valgrind = (import ../development/tools/misc/valgrind) {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
   texinfo = (import ../development/tools/misc/texinfo) {