diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/default.nix
index bd3f11ac014b..d1344d106f54 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
   lib,
   buildPythonPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  replaceVars,
 
   # build-system
   setuptools,
-  versioningit,
+  setuptools-scm,
 
   # native dependencies
   isa-l,
@@ -18,25 +17,19 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "isal";
-  version = "1.7.2";
+  version = "1.8.0";
   pyproject = true;
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "pycompression";
     repo = "python-isal";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-gvUVSGarPA4KupQTd61x75CfqNVqZfFC1zq0R21Clf8=";
+    tag = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-703uXty3a0N+yXfv/7nVIAnU7PaqMtNO0ScltNLJq3g=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    (replaceVars ./version.patch {
-      inherit version;
-    })
-  ];
-
   build-system = [
     setuptools
-    versioningit
+    setuptools-scm
   ];
 
   buildInputs = [ isa-l ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/version.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/version.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a8500a12d46..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/isal/version.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
-index bf5fe99..b559255 100644
---- a/pyproject.toml
-+++ b/pyproject.toml
-@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
- requires = ["setuptools>=64", "versioningit>=1.1.0"]
- build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
- 
--[tool.versioningit.vcs]
--method="git"
--default-tag = "v0.0.0"
-+[tool.versioningit]
-+default-version = "@version@"
- 
- [tool.versioningit.write]
- file = "src/isal/_version.py"