diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyvips/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyvips/default.nix
index 7fc07f20a61a6..8a428bce2e091 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyvips/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyvips/default.nix
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
 {
+  lib,
   stdenv,
   buildPythonPackage,
-  pythonOlder,
+  cffi,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  pytestCheckHook,
   glib,
-  vips,
-  cffi,
-  pkgconfig, # from pythonPackages
   pkg-config, # from pkgs
-  lib,
+  pkgconfig, # from pythonPackages
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  pythonOlder,
+  setuptools,
+  vips,
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pyvips";
-  version = "2.2.1";
-  format = "setuptools";
+  version = "2.2.3";
+  pyproject = true;
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "libvips";
     repo = "pyvips";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-9S7h3bkm+QP78cpemYS7l3c8t+wXsJ5MUAP2T50R/Mc=";
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-EGB1cOR1pVCXGjRj1NLj4Mk3kIy8luRqk3gGJqVNs7U=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
-    pkgconfig
     pkg-config
   ];
 
@@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     vips
   ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ cffi ];
+  build-system = [
+    pkgconfig
+    setuptools
+  ];
+
+  dependencies = [ cffi ];
 
   env = lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.cc.isClang {
     NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error=incompatible-function-pointer-types";