diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mrsqm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mrsqm/default.nix
index 9133b0fe4910..33b4b044dd3b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mrsqm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mrsqm/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
   pip,
   setuptools,
   pytestCheckHook,
+  nix-update-script,
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -63,6 +64,13 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "mrsqm" ];
 
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script {
+    extraArgs = [
+      "--version-regex"
+      "v\\.(.*)"
+    ];
+  };
+
   meta = {
     description = "MrSQM (Multiple Representations Sequence Miner) is a time series classifier";
     homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/mrsqm";