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diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/stress-ng/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/stress-ng/default.nix
index a31ce8f65e4..eec36e8f090 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/stress-ng/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/stress-ng/default.nix
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "stress-ng-${version}";
-  version = "0.09.57";
+  pname = "stress-ng";
+  version = "0.09.58";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/tarballs/stress-ng/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0xp55m1kif8hcjdcdhgaarghqf1gz5fa24qwl6zpmxkzl6bn002x";
+    url = "https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/tarballs/${pname}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1rlll6wl0i0m21idfr3xr99pfgnb9wf9i35hsb0frmrpcvls06za";
   };
 
   # All platforms inputs then Linux-only ones
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       attr keyutils libaio libapparmor libcap lksctp-tools
     ];
 
-  patchPhase = ''
+  postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace Makefile --replace "/usr" ""
   '';
 
@@ -27,25 +27,39 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # mystery, though. :-(
   enableParallelBuilding = (!stdenv.isi686);
 
-  installFlags = [ "DESTDIR=$(out)" ];
+  installFlags = [ "DESTDIR=${placeholder "out"}" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Stress test a computer system";
     longDescription = ''
-      Stress test a system in various selectable ways, exercising both various
-      physical subsystems and various operating system kernel interfaces:
-      - over 130 different stress tests
-      - over 70 CPU specific stress tests that exercise floating point,
-        integer, bit manipulation and control flow
-      - over 20 virtual memory stress tests
-      stress-ng was originally intended to make a machine work hard and trip
-      hardware issues such as thermal overruns as well as operating system
-      bugs that only occur when a system is being thrashed hard.
+      stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It
+      was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as
+      the various operating system kernel interfaces. Stress-ng features:
+
+        * over 210 stress tests
+        * over 50 CPU specific stress tests that exercise floating point, integer,
+          bit manipulation and control flow
+        * over 20 virtual memory stress tests
+        * portable: builds on Linux, Solaris, *BSD, Minix, Android, MacOS X,
+          Debian Hurd, Haiku, Windows Subsystem for Linux and SunOs/Dilos with
+          gcc, clang, tcc and pcc.
+
+      stress-ng was originally intended to make a machine work hard and trip hardware
+      issues such as thermal overruns as well as operating system bugs that only
+      occur when a system is being thrashed hard. Use stress-ng with caution as some
+      of the tests can make a system run hot on poorly designed hardware and also can
+      cause excessive system thrashing which may be difficult to stop.
+
+      stress-ng can also measure test throughput rates; this can be useful to observe
+      performance changes across different operating system releases or types of
+      hardware. However, it has never been intended to be used as a precise benchmark
+      test suite, so do NOT use it in this manner.
     '';
-    homepage = https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/stress-ng/;
-    downloadPage = https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/tarballs/stress-ng/;
+    homepage = "https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/stress-ng/";
+    downloadPage = "https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/tarballs/stress-ng/";
+    changelog = "https://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog?h=V${version}";
     license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ c0bw3b ];
-    platforms = platforms.linux; # TODO: fix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50506#issuecomment-439635963
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
   };
 }