diff --git a/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.14.recipe b/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.16.recipe
similarity index 90%
rename from app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.14.recipe
rename to app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.16.recipe
index c47acf1d2..b312c9be2 100644
--- a/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.14.recipe
+++ b/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.16.recipe
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://www.doxygen.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="1997-2017 Dimitri van Heesch"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 REVISION="1"
-SOURCE_URI="http://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/dimitri/doxygen-$portVersion.src.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="d1757e02755ef6f56fd45f1f4398598b920381948d6fcfa58f5ca6aa56f59d4d"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/archive/Release_${portVersion//./_}.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="75b18117f88ca1930ab74c05f6712690a26dd4fdcfc9d7d5324be43160645fb4"
+SOURCE_DIR="doxygen-Release_${portVersion//./_}"
 PATCHES="doxygen-$portVersion.patchset"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="!x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:cmake
 	cmd:date
 	cmd:flex
+	cmd:git
 	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:make
diff --git a/app-doc/doxygen/patches/doxygen-1.8.14.patchset b/app-doc/doxygen/patches/doxygen-1.8.16.patchset
similarity index 100%
rename from app-doc/doxygen/patches/doxygen-1.8.14.patchset
rename to app-doc/doxygen/patches/doxygen-1.8.16.patchset