diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.8.x.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.8.x.nix
index fd402319d958..b7e33f4863be 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.8.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.8.x.nix
@@ -85,10 +85,15 @@ self: super: {
     url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hvr/head.hackage/master/patches/vector-th-unbox-0.2.1.6.patch";
     sha256 = "0169yf9ms1g5mmkc5l6hpffzm34zdrqdng4df02nbdmfgba45h19";
   });
-  cabal-doctest = appendPatch  (doJailbreak super.cabal-doctest) (pkgs.fetchpatch {
-    url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hvr/head.hackage/master/patches/cabal-doctest-1.0.6.patch";
-    sha256 = "0735mkxhv557pgnfvdjakkw9r85l5gy28grdwg929m26ghbf9s8j";
-  });
+  cabal-doctest = overrideSrc (doJailbreak super.cabal-doctest) {
+    version = "1.0.7";
+    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "phadej";
+      repo = "cabal-doctest";
+      rev = "5abe80fe4ef2eca337bad719d957a0fe1b571392";
+      sha256 = "08040fjkdlg7ll3jrc7xpbn0ca6y22zlvngnz1inh511f4wvq80d";
+    };
+  };
   regex-base = overrideCabal (appendPatch super.regex-base (pkgs.fetchpatch {
     url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hvr/head.hackage/master/patches/regex-base-0.93.2.patch";
     sha256 = "01d1plrdx6hcspwn2h6y9pyi5366qk926vb5cl5qcl6x4m23l6y1";