diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index d9560a2c4003..38f3e8b50c3c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1947,4 +1947,16 @@ EOT
   # Break out of "Cabal < 3.2" constraint.
   stylish-haskell = doJailbreak super.stylish-haskell;
 
+  # Upgrade blucontrol ahead of hackage snapshot to 0.5.1.1
+  # for relaxed bounds on X11
+  blucontrol = let patchedVersion = "0.5.1.1"; in
+    assert pkgs.lib.versionOlder super.blucontrol.version patchedVersion;
+    overrideSrc super.blucontrol {
+      version = patchedVersion;
+      src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+        url = "https://hackage.haskell.org/package/blucontrol-${patchedVersion}/blucontrol-${patchedVersion}.tar.gz";
+        sha256 = "0v3ifwxjbxm86ybn5daqqfdm4nmbfzlbkyc19d4nawnzjyf8v2p9";
+      };
+    };
+
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super