diff --git a/component/serf/buildout.cfg b/component/serf/buildout.cfg
index 576c95dc498955b0bb3bae776d6b6f02e6595bec..ee9864e6f9bb4f396f362fb25a79f0c7e87c2d72 100644
--- a/component/serf/buildout.cfg
+++ b/component/serf/buildout.cfg
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ extends =
 
 [serf]
 recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi
-url = http://serf.googlecode.com/files/serf-0.7.0.tar.gz
-md5sum = 3233f22a5875320da7bdc854d0873080
+url = https://serf.googlecode.com/files/serf-1.2.1.tar.bz2
+md5sum = 4f8e76c9c6567aee1d66aba49f76a58b
 configure-options =
   --with-apr=${apache:location}/bin/apr-1-config
   --with-apr-util=${apache:location}/bin/apu-1-config