diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorly/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorly/default.nix
index 52b3be102a20..0de6a2ff9eed 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorly/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorly/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-{ lib
+{ stdenv
+, lib
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , numpy
 , pytestCheckHook
 , pythonOlder
 , scipy
-, sparse
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "tensorly";
-  version = "0.7.0";
+  version = "0.8.0";
   format = "setuptools";
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
@@ -18,29 +18,35 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = pname;
     repo = pname;
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-VcX3pCczZQUYZaD7xrrkOcj0QPJt28cYTwpZm5D/X3c=";
+    rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-6iZvUgsoYf8fDGEuAODgfr4jCkiJwaJXlQUAsaOF9JU=";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     numpy
     scipy
-    sparse
   ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [
     pytestCheckHook
   ];
 
-  postPatch = ''
-    # nose is not actually required for anything
-    # (including testing with the minimal dependencies)
-    substituteInPlace setup.py \
-      --replace ", 'nose'" ""
-  '';
-
   pythonImportsCheck = [
     "tensorly"
+    "tensorly.base"
+    "tensorly.cp_tensor"
+    "tensorly.tucker_tensor"
+    "tensorly.tt_tensor"
+    "tensorly.tt_matrix"
+    "tensorly.parafac2_tensor"
+    "tensorly.tenalg"
+    "tensorly.decomposition"
+    "tensorly.regression"
+    "tensorly.metrics"
+    "tensorly.random"
+    "tensorly.datasets"
+    "tensorly.plugins"
+    "tensorly.contrib"
   ];
 
   pytestFlagsArray = [
@@ -48,6 +54,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   ];
 
   disabledTests = [
+    # tries to download data:
+    "test_kinetic"
     # AssertionError: Partial_SVD took too long, maybe full_matrices set wrongly
     "test_svd_time"
   ];
@@ -57,5 +65,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://tensorly.org/";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ bcdarwin ];
+    broken = stdenv.isLinux && stdenv.isAarch64;  # test failures: test_TTOI and test_validate_tucker_rank
   };
 }