diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pymssql/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pymssql/default.nix
index 959d7b69e6da..e062c195dcb5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pymssql/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pymssql/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   lib,
   buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchPypi,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
   freetds,
   krb5-c,
   openssl,
@@ -13,20 +13,21 @@
   sqlalchemy,
   tomli,
 }:
-
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pymssql";
-  version = "2.3.7";
+  version = "2.3.11";
   pyproject = true;
 
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    hash = "sha256-Xm15x7HOxArr7EsJnG5EXMqsJFGeXnZ7SaTm9IwIflA=";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "pymssql";
+    repo = "pymssql";
+    tag = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-Ybfg3V4qRqfA5basRAdL027aImt5i2SdfoC+Tfy/qBI=";
   };
 
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace pyproject.toml \
-      --replace-fail "setuptools>=54.0,<70.3" "setuptools>=54.0"
+      --replace-fail '"standard-distutils ; python_version>='"'"'3.12'"'"'"' ""
   '';
 
   build-system = [