diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/oryx/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/oryx/default.nix
index db61db9ca36d..169902c8a5be 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/oryx/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/oryx/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   lib,
   buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchPypi,
 
   # build-system
   poetry-core,
@@ -18,14 +18,13 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "oryx";
-  version = "0.2.7";
+  version = "0.2.9";
   pyproject = true;
 
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "jax-ml";
-    repo = "oryx";
-    tag = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-1n7ogGuFNAeOyXWe0/pAouhg2+aA3MXxlCcsrfqRTdU=";
+  # No more tags on GitHub. See https://github.com/jax-ml/oryx/issues/95
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    hash = "sha256-HlKUnguTNfs7gSqIJ0n2EjjLXPUgtI2JsQM70wKMeXs=";
   };
 
   build-system = [ poetry-core ];
@@ -43,6 +42,72 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pytestCheckHook
   ];
 
+  disabledTests = [
+    # ValueError: Number of devices 1 must equal the product of mesh_shape (1, 2)
+    "test_plant"
+    "test_plant_before_shmap"
+    "test_plant_inside_shmap_fails"
+    "test_reap"
+    "test_reap_before_shmap"
+    "test_reap_inside_shmap_fails"
+
+    # ValueError: Variable has already been reaped
+    "test_call_list"
+    "test_call_tuple"
+    "test_dense_combinator"
+    "test_dense_function"
+    "test_dense_imperative"
+    "test_function_in_combinator_in_function"
+    "test_grad_of_function_with_literal"
+    "test_grad_of_shared_layer"
+    "test_grad_of_stateful_function"
+    "test_kwargs_rng"
+    "test_kwargs_training"
+    "test_kwargs_training_rng"
+    "test_reshape_call"
+    "test_scale_by_adam_should_scale_by_adam"
+    "test_scale_by_schedule_should_update_scale"
+    "test_scale_by_stddev_should_scale_by_stddev"
+    "test_trace_should_keep_track_of_momentum_with_nesterov"
+
+    # NotImplementedError: No registered inverse for `split`
+    "test_inverse_of_split"
+
+    # jax.errors.UnexpectedTracerError: Encountered an unexpected tracer
+    "test_can_plant_into_jvp_of_custom_jvp_function_unimplemented"
+    "test_forward_Scale"
+
+    # ValueError: No variable declared for assign: update_1
+    "test_optimizer_adam"
+    "test_optimizer_noisy_sgd"
+    "test_optimizer_rmsprop"
+    "test_optimizer_sgd"
+    "test_optimizer_sgd_with_momentum"
+    "test_optimizer_sgd_with_nesterov_momentum"
+
+    # AssertionError
+    # ACTUAL: array(-2.337877, dtype=float32)
+    # DESIRED: array(0., dtype=float32)
+    "test_can_map_over_batches_with_vmap_and_reduce_to_scalar_log_prob"
+    "test_vmapping_distribution_reduces_to_scalar_log_prob"
+
+    # TypeError: _dot_general_shape_rule() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'out_sharding'
+    "test_can_rewrite_dot_to_einsu"
+
+    # AttributeError: 'float' object has no attribute 'shape'
+    "test_add_noise_should_add_noise"
+    "test_apply_every_should_delay_updates"
+
+    # TypeError: Error interpreting argument to functools.partial(...) as an abstract array
+    "test_can_rewrite_nested_expression_into_single_einsum"
+  ];
+
+  disabledTestPaths = [
+    # ValueError: Variable has already been reaped
+    "oryx/experimental/nn/normalization_test.py"
+    "oryx/experimental/nn/pooling_test.py"
+  ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "Library for probabilistic programming and deep learning built on top of Jax";
     homepage = "https://github.com/jax-ml/oryx";