diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/lp/lpcnetfreedv/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/lp/lpcnetfreedv/package.nix
index ea1815a5731e..50860d1335cd 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/lp/lpcnetfreedv/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/lp/lpcnetfreedv/package.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   fetchFromGitHub,
   fetchurl,
   cmake,
+  nix-update-script,
 }:
 
 let
@@ -31,6 +32,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ln -s ${data} build/lpcnet_${dataVersion}.tgz
   '';
 
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script {
+    extraArgs = [ "--version=branch" ];
+  };
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://freedv.org/";
     description = "Experimental Neural Net speech coding for FreeDV";