diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libpcap/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libpcap/default.nix
index 2da09a58df91..54a130659455 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libpcap/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libpcap/default.nix
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@
 , pkgsLibpcap
 , pkg-about
 , setuptools
+, pytestCheckHook
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "libpcap";
-  version = "1.11.0b7";
+  version = "1.11.0b8";
   format = "pyproject";
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
     extension = "zip";
-    hash = "sha256-gEWFqmeOJTVHdjcSOxfVLZtrNSO3CTY1L2VcXOu7q7k=";
+    hash = "sha256-6XhEVOO2Z2rFZiMz4d32tTR+xUu1KdMdDjChmt2wsQo=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # tox is listed in build requirements but not actually used to build
   # keeping it as a requirement breaks the build unnecessarily
   postPatch = ''
-    sed  -i "/requires/s/, 'tox>=3.25.1'//"  pyproject.toml
+    sed -i "/requires/s/, 'tox>=[^']*'//" pyproject.toml
     cat <<EOF >src/libpcap/libpcap.cfg
     [libpcap]
     LIBPCAP = ${pkgsLibpcap}/lib/libpcap${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary}
@@ -42,8 +43,15 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pkg-about
   ];
 
-  # Project has tests, but I can't get them to run even outside of nix
-  doCheck = false;
+  preCheck = ''
+    pushd tests
+  '';
+  postCheck = ''
+    popd
+  '';
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+  ];
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [
     "libpcap"
@@ -61,6 +69,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
       It is fully compliant implementation of the original C libpcap from 1.0.0 up to 1.9.0 API and the WinPcap’s 4.1.3 libpcap (1.0.0rel0b) API by implementing whole its functionality in a clean Python instead of C.
     '';
     homepage = "https://github.com/karpierz/libpcap/";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/karpierz/libpcap/blob/${version}/CHANGES.rst";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
     maintainers = teams.ororatech.members;
   };