diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mdformat-mkdocs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mdformat-mkdocs/default.nix
index 6b18d7b60941..e30c40acb41a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mdformat-mkdocs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mdformat-mkdocs/default.nix
@@ -3,13 +3,18 @@
   buildPythonPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
   flit-core,
-  mdformat,
+  mdformat-beautysh,
+  mdformat-footnote,
+  mdformat-frontmatter,
   mdformat-gfm,
+  mdformat-simple-breaks,
+  mdformat-tables,
+  mdformat,
   mdit-py-plugins,
   more-itertools,
-  pythonOlder,
   pytest-snapshot,
   pytestCheckHook,
+  pythonOlder,
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -35,6 +40,20 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     more-itertools
   ];
 
+  optional-dependencies = {
+    recommended = [
+      mdformat-beautysh
+      # mdformat-config
+      mdformat-footnote
+      mdformat-frontmatter
+      # mdformat-ruff
+      mdformat-simple-breaks
+      mdformat-tables
+      # mdformat-web
+      # mdformat-wikilink
+    ];
+  };
+
   nativeCheckInputs = [
     pytest-snapshot
     pytestCheckHook
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mdformat/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mdformat/default.nix
index 393d877370c2..c9c3040424d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mdformat/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mdformat/default.nix
@@ -2,12 +2,10 @@
   lib,
   buildPythonPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  importlib-metadata,
   markdown-it-py,
   pytestCheckHook,
   pythonOlder,
   setuptools,
-  tomli,
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -15,7 +13,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   version = "0.7.22";
   pyproject = true;
 
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.8";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.12";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "executablebooks";
@@ -26,10 +24,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   build-system = [ setuptools ];
 
-  dependencies =
-    [ markdown-it-py ]
-    ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.11") [ tomli ]
-    ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.10") [ importlib-metadata ];
+  dependencies = [ markdown-it-py ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];