diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/default.nix
index 795eacab36b0..3a7ca9a07a2b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/default.nix
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
   lib,
   buildPythonPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  substituteAll,
 
   # build-system
   setuptools,
+  versioningit,
 
   # native dependencies
   isa-l,
@@ -16,17 +18,27 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "isal";
-  version = "1.6.1";
+  version = "1.7.0";
   pyproject = true;
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "pycompression";
     repo = "python-isal";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-EhdKT2ftyU2zevFg9Yi3q2FVx0FmKwJMzszsK1NS3Qg=";
+    hash = "sha256-wasybbNWBa6Zd0JI2/lBNUkvEOY3/iBqsVWh/4WPM2s=";
   };
 
-  build-system = [ setuptools ];
+  patches = [
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./version.patch;
+      inherit version;
+    })
+  ];
+
+  build-system = [
+    setuptools
+    versioningit
+  ];
 
   buildInputs = [ isa-l ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/version.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/version.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9a8500a12d46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/version.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
+index bf5fe99..b559255 100644
+--- a/pyproject.toml
++++ b/pyproject.toml
+@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
+ requires = ["setuptools>=64", "versioningit>=1.1.0"]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+ 
+-[tool.versioningit.vcs]
+-method="git"
+-default-tag = "v0.0.0"
++[tool.versioningit]
++default-version = "@version@"
+ 
+ [tool.versioningit.write]
+ file = "src/isal/_version.py"