diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/xmpp-alerts.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/xmpp-alerts.nix
index f9d9ce499b5f..da6013b9b5ec 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/xmpp-alerts.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/xmpp-alerts.nix
@@ -9,27 +9,18 @@
 
 python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "prometheus-xmpp-alerts";
-  version = "0.5.6";
+  version = "0.5.8";
+  format = "pyproject";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "jelmer";
     repo = pname;
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-PwShGS1rbfZCK5OS6Cnn+mduOpWAD4fC69mcGB5GB1c=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-iwqcowwJktZQfdxykpsw/MweAPY0KF7ojVwvk1LP8a4=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # Required until https://github.com/jelmer/prometheus-xmpp-alerts/pull/33 is merged
-    # and contained in a release
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "Fix-outdated-entrypoint-definiton.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/jelmer/prometheus-xmpp-alerts/commit/c41dd41dbd3c781b874bcf0708f6976e6252b621.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-G7fRLSXbkI5EDgGf4n9xSVs54IPD0ev8rTEFffRvLY0=";
-    })
-  ];
-
   postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace setup.cfg \
+    substituteInPlace pyproject.toml \
       --replace "bs4" "beautifulsoup4"
   '';
 
@@ -46,6 +37,7 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   ]);
 
   nativeCheckInputs = with python3Packages; [
+    setuptools
     unittestCheckHook
     pytz
   ];