diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/semver/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/semver/default.nix
index bc0262a89c93..5aca34b52f11 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/semver/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/semver/default.nix
@@ -1,24 +1,27 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildPythonPackage, pytest }:
+{ stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, buildPythonPackage
+, pytestCheckHook
+, pytestcov
+}:
 
-buildPythonPackage {
+buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "semver";
-  version = "2.8.1";
+  version = "2.10.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "k-bx";
+    owner = "python-semver";
     repo = "python-semver";
-    rev = "41775dd5f143dfa6ca94885056c9ef5b3ed4e6e1"; # not tagged in repository
-    sha256 = "1rqaakha4sw06k9h0h4g1wmk66zkmhpq92y2rw0kyfpp6xk1zbk2";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0yxjmcgk5iwp53l9z1cg0ajrj18i09ircs11ifpdrggzm8n1blf3";
   };
 
-  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
-  checkPhase = ''
-    py.test
-  '';
+  preCheck = "rm -rf dist"; # confuses source vs dist imports in pytest
+  checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook pytestcov ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Python package to work with Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/)";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/k-bx/python-semver";
+    homepage = "https://python-semver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ np ];
   };