diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/debugedit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/debugedit/default.nix
index 0328d1f597b..afac7168c5b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/debugedit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/debugedit/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #TODO@deliciouslytyped The tool seems to unnecessarily force mutable access for the debugedit `-l` feature
 {fetchgit, lib, stdenv, autoreconfHook, pkg-config, elfutils, help2man, util-linux}:
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "debugedit";
-  version = "unstable-2021-07-05";
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "debugedit";
+  version = "5.0";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkg-config help2man ];
   buildInputs = [ elfutils ];
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "git://sourceware.org/git/debugedit.git";
-    rev = "e04296ddf34cbc43303d7af32ab3a73ac20af51a";
-    sha256 = "19cjkpzhdn2z6fl7xw8556m6kyrb7nxwbz2rmiv2rynyp74yg44z";
+    rev = "debugedit-${version}";
+    sha256 = "VTZ7ybQT3DfKIfK0lH+JiehCJyJ+qpQ0bAn1/f+Pscs=";
   };
 
   preBuild = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 6fac1340ff0..460e7642905 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   deadbeef-mpris2-plugin = deadbeefPlugins.mpris2; # added 2018-02-23
   deadpixi-sam = deadpixi-sam-unstable;
   debian_devscripts = debian-devscripts; # added 2016-03-23
+  debugedit-unstable = debugedit; # added 2021-11-22
   deepin = throw "deepin was a work in progress and it has been canceled and removed https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94870"; # added 2020-08-31
   deepspeech = throw "deepspeech was removed in favor of stt. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/119496"; # added 2021-05-05
   deltachat-electron = deltachat-desktop; # added 2021-07-18
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index bb92dc9a69b..10125aa62e8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4418,7 +4418,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   debootstrap = callPackage ../tools/misc/debootstrap { };
 
-  debugedit-unstable = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/debugedit { };
+  debugedit = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/debugedit { };
 
   deer = callPackage ../shells/zsh/zsh-deer { };