diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/coffea/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/coffea/default.nix
index 86090e3b2556..538e25ee0157 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/coffea/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/coffea/default.nix
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "coffea"
   ];
 
+  __darwinAllowLocalNetworking = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Basic tools and wrappers for enabling not-too-alien syntax when running columnar Collider HEP analysis";
     homepage = "https://github.com/CoffeaTeam/coffea";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-awkward/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-awkward/default.nix
index e24b06a23b68..26f2c2bb5191 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-awkward/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-awkward/default.nix
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "test_basic_root_works"
   ];
 
+  __darwinAllowLocalNetworking = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Native Dask collection for awkward arrays, and the library to use it";
     homepage = "https://github.com/dask-contrib/dask-awkward";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-expr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-expr/default.nix
index 8a13311116c7..657d588931e7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-expr/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-expr/default.nix
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pytestCheckHook
   ];
 
+  __darwinAllowLocalNetworking = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "";
     homepage = "https://github.com/dask/dask-expr";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-glm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-glm/default.nix
index dd5cfe0d2981..15a7df7fe029 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-glm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-glm/default.nix
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "test_determinism_distributed"
   ];
 
+  __darwinAllowLocalNetworking = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Generalized Linear Models with Dask";
     homepage = "https://github.com/dask/dask-glm/";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-ml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-ml/default.nix
index 3cb7ed9618b1..9c19a072ee58 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-ml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dask-ml/default.nix
@@ -1,37 +1,47 @@
 { lib
 , buildPythonPackage
+, pythonOlder
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, hatch-vcs
+, hatchling
+, setuptools-scm
 , dask
+, dask-expr
 , dask-glm
 , distributed
-, fetchPypi
 , multipledispatch
 , numba
 , numpy
 , packaging
 , pandas
-, pythonOlder
 , scikit-learn
 , scipy
-, setuptools-scm
+, pytest-mock
+, pytestCheckHook
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "dask-ml";
-  version = "2023.3.24";
-  format = "setuptools";
+  version = "2024.4.4";
+  pyproject = true;
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
 
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    hash = "sha256-lsCQ220yg2U24/Ccpk3rWZ6GRYeqjj1NLGtK9YhzMwc=";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "dask";
+    repo = "dask-ml";
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-ZiBpCk3b4Tk0Hwb4uapJLEx+Nb/qHFROCnkBTNGDzoU=";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
+  build-system = [
+    hatch-vcs
+    hatchling
     setuptools-scm
   ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+  dependencies = [
+    dask-expr
     dask-glm
     distributed
     multipledispatch
@@ -44,9 +54,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   ] ++ dask.optional-dependencies.array
     ++ dask.optional-dependencies.dataframe;
 
-  # has non-standard build from source, and pypi doesn't include tests
-  doCheck = false;
-
   pythonImportsCheck = [
     "dask_ml"
     "dask_ml.naive_bayes"
@@ -54,10 +61,17 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "dask_ml.utils"
   ];
 
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytest-mock
+    pytestCheckHook
+  ];
+
+  __darwinAllowLocalNetworking = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Scalable Machine Learn with Dask";
     homepage = "https://github.com/dask/dask-ml";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ GaetanLepage ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/distributed/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/distributed/default.nix
index 890f579207ca..35c1df57422a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/distributed/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/distributed/default.nix
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "distributed";
-  version = "2024.4.2";
+  version = "2024.5.0";
   pyproject = true;
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.9";
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     owner = "dask";
     repo = "distributed";
     rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-xoQ+b7qzstZl9gRNs4jssNOsGQHDdvTXU7pTjBSuyWs=";
+    hash = "sha256-9W5BpBQHw1ZXCOWiFPeIlMns/Yys1gtdwQ4Lhd7qjK8=";
   };
 
   postPatch = ''
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
       --replace 'dynamic = ["version"]' 'version = "${version}"'
   '';
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
+  build-system = [
     pythonRelaxDepsHook
     setuptools
     setuptools-scm
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "dask"
   ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+  dependencies = [
     click
     cloudpickle
     dask