diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pa/paperless-ngx/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pa/paperless-ngx/package.nix
index 75f6a1e8c27f..aaf867cccafb 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/pa/paperless-ngx/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/pa/paperless-ngx/package.nix
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ let
   python = python3.override {
     self = python;
     packageOverrides = final: prev: {
-      django = prev.django_5;
+      django = prev.django_5_1;
 
       # tesseract5 may be overwritten in the paperless module and we need to propagate that to make the closure reduction effective
       ocrmypdf = prev.ocrmypdf.override { tesseract = tesseract5; };