diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/du/dust/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/du/dust/package.nix
index 720bfee00efd..bbcfa8fd96be 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/du/dust/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/du/dust/package.nix
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
   fetchFromGitHub,
   rustPlatform,
   installShellFiles,
+  versionCheckHook,
+  nix-update-script,
 }:
 
-rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
+rustPlatform.buildRustPackage (finalAttrs: {
   # Originally, this package was under the attribute `du-dust`, since `dust` was taken.
   # Since then, `dust` has been freed up, allowing this package to take that attribute.
   # However in order for tools like `nix-env` to detect package updates, keep `du-dust` for pname.
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "bootandy";
     repo = "dust";
-    rev = "v${version}";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
     hash = "sha256-MmlCTF7tZBBOCnyhUjTatDjajFMGd+Nk2kYyxjzZc04=";
     # Remove unicode file names which leads to different checksums on HFS+
     # vs. other filesystems because of unicode normalisation.
@@ -29,18 +31,38 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ installShellFiles ];
 
-  doCheck = false;
+  checkFlags = [
+    # disable tests that depend on the unicode files we removed above
+    "--skip=test_show_files_by_type"
+  ];
+
+  preCheck = ''
+    # These tests depend on the disk format of the build host.
+    rm tests/test_exact_output.rs
+    rm tests/tests_symlinks.rs
+  '';
 
   postInstall = ''
     installManPage man-page/dust.1
     installShellCompletion completions/dust.{bash,fish} --zsh completions/_dust
   '';
 
+  nativeInstallCheckInputs = [ versionCheckHook ];
+  versionCheckProgram = "${placeholder "out"}/bin/dust";
+  versionCheckProgramArg = "--version";
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { };
+
   meta = {
     description = "du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive";
     homepage = "https://github.com/bootandy/dust";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/bootandy/dust/releases/tag/v${finalAttrs.version}";
     license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ aaronjheng ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
+      aaronjheng
+      defelo
+    ];
     mainProgram = "dust";
   };
-}
+})