diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index c7b1e405ebba..4272573b7205 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ plenary.nvim,https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim.git,,,,lua5_1,
 rapidjson,https://github.com/xpol/lua-rapidjson.git,,,,,
 readline,,,,,,
 say,https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/say.git,,,,,
+serpent,,,,,,
 sqlite,,,,,,
 std._debug,https://github.com/lua-stdlib/_debug.git,,,,,
 std.normalize,https://github.com/lua-stdlib/normalize.git,,,,,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 22570d3fbb4b..60b273f4baec 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -2546,6 +2546,39 @@ buildLuarocksPackage {
   };
 }) {};
 
+serpent = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, luaOlder, luaAtLeast
+, fetchgit, lua
+}:
+buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "serpent";
+  version = "0.30-2";
+  knownRockspec = (fetchurl {
+    url    = "mirror://luarocks/serpent-0.30-2.rockspec";
+    sha256 = "0v83lr9ars1n0djbh7np8jjqdhhaw0pdy2nkcqzqrhv27rzv494n";
+  }).outPath;
+  src = fetchgit ( removeAttrs (builtins.fromJSON ''{
+  "url": "https://github.com/pkulchenko/serpent",
+  "rev": "d78683597606c6e13a1fed039bc91d86eb8f600f",
+  "date": "2017-09-01T21:35:14-07:00",
+  "path": "/nix/store/z6df44n3p07n4bia7s514vgngbkbpnap-serpent",
+  "sha256": "0q80yfrgqgr01qprf0hrp284ngb7fbcq1v9rbzmdkhbm9lpgy8v8",
+  "fetchLFS": false,
+  "fetchSubmodules": true,
+  "deepClone": false,
+  "leaveDotGit": false
+}
+ '') ["date" "path"]) ;
+
+  disabled = with lua; (luaOlder "5.1") || (luaAtLeast "5.5");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/pkulchenko/serpent";
+    description = "Lua serializer and pretty printer";
+    license.fullName = "MIT";
+  };
+}) {};
+
 sqlite = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, luaOlder, luaAtLeast
 , fetchgit, luv
 }: