diff --git a/packages/tmux/build.sh b/packages/tmux/build.sh
index 789d22be0..660e95383 100644
--- a/packages/tmux/build.sh
+++ b/packages/tmux/build.sh
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Terminal multiplexer"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 # Link against libandroid-support for wcwidth(), see https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/224
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, libevent, libandroid-support, libandroid-glob"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=3.0
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=3.0a
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/tmux-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9edcd78df80962ee2e6471a8f647602be5ded62bb41c574172bb3dc3d0b9b4b4
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=4ad1df28b4afa969e59c08061b45082fdc49ff512f30fc8e43217d7b0e5f8db9
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--disable-static"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true