diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index fb90e62769f8..ac9f22d23fb3 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ basexx,,,,,
 binaryheap,,,,,vcunat
 bit32,,,,lua5_1,lblasc
 busted,,,,,
-cassowary,,,,,marsam
+cassowary,,,,,marsam alerque
 cjson,lua-cjson,,,,
 compat53,,,,,vcunat
 cosmo,,,,,marsam
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages b/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
index 5c42080745eb..da4d224bd330 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ nixpkgs$ ${0} ${GENERATED_NIXFILE}
 
 These packages are manually refined in lua-overrides.nix
 */
-{ self, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
+{ self, stdenv, lib, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
 self: super:
 with self;
 {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index fddb028b80ae..8ec44d17016a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ nixpkgs$ maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages pkgs/development/lua-modul
 
 These packages are manually refined in lua-overrides.nix
 */
-{ self, lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
+{ self, stdenv, lib, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
 self: super:
 with self;
 {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix
index 57f200fd0fcb..30e02a3623fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 { luarocks, fetchFromGitHub }:
 luarocks.overrideAttrs(old: {
   pname = "luarocks-nix";
-  version = "2019-09-07";
+  version = "2021-01-22";
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "nix-community";
     repo = "luarocks-nix";
-    rev = "73b8772e56fd39dfffda9e3b13e9eb31e93d5cde";
-    sha256 = "00jgshygw439pbaxg7yph3ijia6nid9r1br416wdbyl5wqhlhm1y";
+    rev = "v3.5.0_nix";
+    sha256 = "sha256-Ea3PVkCaUPO/mvVZtHtD1G9T/Yom28M9oN6duY4ovHk=";
   };
-  patches = [
-    ./darwin-3.1.3.patch
-  ];
 })