diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/rocm-thunk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/rocm-thunk/default.nix
index 432688e1bfb5..4d641f873021 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/rocm-thunk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/rocm-thunk/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 { lib, stdenv
 , fetchFromGitHub
+, writeScript
 , cmake
 , pkg-config
 , numactl
@@ -28,6 +29,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cp -r $src/include $out
   '';
 
+  passthru.updateScript = writeScript "update.sh" ''
+    #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+    #!nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq common-updater-scripts
+    version="$(curl -sL "https://api.github.com/repos/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCT-Thunk-Interface/tags" | jq '.[].name | split("-") | .[1] | select( . != null )' --raw-output | sort -n | tail -1)"
+    update-source-version rocm-thunk "$version"
+  '';
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Radeon open compute thunk interface";
     homepage = "https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCT-Thunk-Interface";