diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/zope-lifecycleevent/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/zope-lifecycleevent/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fc6b0005ffac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/zope-lifecycleevent/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, pythonOlder
+, setuptools
+, zope_event
+, zope_interface
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "zope-lifecycleevent";
+  version = "5.0";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    pname = "zope.lifecycleevent";
+    inherit version;
+    hash = "sha256-6tP7SW52FPm1adFtrUt4BSsKwhh1utjWbKNQNS2bb50=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    setuptools
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ zope_event zope_interface ];
+
+  # namespace colides with local directory
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "zope.lifecycleevent"
+    "zope.interface"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.lifecycleevent";
+    description = "Object life-cycle events";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.lifecycleevent/blob/${version}/CHANGES.rst";
+    license = licenses.zpl21;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ goibhniu ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/zope_lifecycleevent/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/zope_lifecycleevent/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 807deb097feb..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/zope_lifecycleevent/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, isPy3k
-, zope_event
-, zope-component
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "zope.lifecycleevent";
-  version = "4.4";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    hash = "sha256-9ahU6J/5fe6ke/vqN4u77yeJ0uDMkKHB2lfZChzmfLU=";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ zope_event zope-component ];
-
-  # namespace colides with local directory
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  # zope uses pep 420 namespaces for python3, doesn't work with nix + python2
-  pythonImportsCheck = lib.optionals isPy3k [
-    "zope.lifecycleevent"
-    "zope.interface"
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.lifecycleevent";
-    description = "Object life-cycle events";
-    license = licenses.zpl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ goibhniu ];
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 6d28fd6dc2f1..88513d4e4bd3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -432,5 +432,6 @@ mapAliases ({
   zope_contenttype = zope-contenttype; # added 2023-10-11
   zope_deprecation = zope-deprecation; # added 2023-10-07
   zope_i18nmessageid = zope-i18nmessageid; # added 2023-07-29
+  zope_lifecycleevent = zope-lifecycleevent; # added 2023-10-11
   zope_proxy = zope-proxy; # added 2023-10-07
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index fdac0dcb5491..77f324b22c33 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -15971,7 +15971,7 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   zope_interface = callPackage ../development/python-modules/zope_interface { };
 
-  zope_lifecycleevent = callPackage ../development/python-modules/zope_lifecycleevent { };
+  zope-lifecycleevent = callPackage ../development/python-modules/zope-lifecycleevent { };
 
   zope_location = callPackage ../development/python-modules/zope_location { };