diff --git a/nixos/tests/postgis.nix b/nixos/tests/postgis.nix
index dacf4e576c07..5b63e2ba73eb 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/postgis.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/postgis.nix
@@ -26,5 +26,13 @@ import ./make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, ...} : {
     master.succeed("sudo -u postgres psql -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis;'")
     master.succeed("sudo -u postgres psql -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis_raster;'")
     master.succeed("sudo -u postgres psql -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;'")
+    master.succeed("sudo -u postgres psql -c 'select postgis_version();'")
+    master.succeed("[ \"$(sudo -u postgres psql --no-psqlrc --tuples-only -c 'select postgis_version();')\" = \" ${
+      pkgs.lib.versions.major pkgs.postgis.version
+    }.${
+      pkgs.lib.versions.minor pkgs.postgis.version
+    } USE_GEOS=1 USE_PROJ=1 USE_STATS=1\" ]")
+    # st_makepoint goes through c code
+    master.succeed("sudo -u postgres psql --no-psqlrc --tuples-only -c 'select st_makepoint(1, 1)'")
   '';
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/ext/postgis.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/ext/postgis.nix
index 109876b6e9d2..aa62c778a3fd 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/ext/postgis.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/ext/postgis.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   protobufc,
   libiconv,
   libxslt,
-  docbook_xml_dtd_45,
+  docbook5,
   cunit,
   pcre2,
   nixosTests,
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "postgis";
-  version = "3.4.3";
+  version = "3.5.0";
 
   outputs = [
     "out"
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-${version}.tar.gz";
-    hash = "sha256-+N7VBdrrj1dlnaK55Xf/ceGDqqCUcI0u7OLFbZM2H2I=";
+    hash = "sha256-ymmKIswrKzRnrE4GO0OihBPzAE3dUFvczddMVqZH9RA=";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     substituteInPlace regress/run_test.pl --replace-fail "/share/contrib/postgis" "$out/share/postgresql/contrib/postgis"
     substituteInPlace regress/Makefile --replace-fail 's,\$$libdir,$(REGRESS_INSTALLDIR)/lib,g' "s,\\$\$libdir,$PWD/regress/00-regress-install$out/lib,g" \
       --replace-fail '$(REGRESS_INSTALLDIR)/share/contrib/postgis/*.sql' "$PWD/regress/00-regress-install$out/share/postgresql/contrib/postgis/*.sql"
-    substituteInPlace doc/postgis-out.xml --replace-fail "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" "${docbook_xml_dtd_45}/xml/dtd/docbook/docbookx.dtd"
+    substituteInPlace doc/postgis-out.xml --replace-fail "http://docbook.org/xml/5.0/dtd/docbook.dtd" "${docbook5}/xml/dtd/docbook/docbookx.dtd"
     # The test suite hardcodes it to use /tmp.
     export PGIS_REG_TMPDIR="$TMPDIR/pgis_reg"
   '';