diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/datatable/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/datatable/default.nix
index 2ebb488aba77..a2fb8aba71c8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/datatable/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/datatable/default.nix
@@ -1,25 +1,29 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, pythonOlder
-, pipInstallHook, writeText
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, pipInstallHook
+, writeText
 , blessed
 , docutils
 , libcxx
 , llvm
 , pytestCheckHook
 , typesentry
-, isPy310
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "datatable";
-  version = "0.11.0";
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.5";
+  # python 3.10+ support is not in the 1.0.0 release
+  version = "unstable-2022-12-15";
+  format = "pyproject";
 
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "19c602711e00f72e9ae296d8fa742d46da037c2d3a2d254bdf68f817a8da76bb";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "h2oai";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "9522f0833d3e965656396de4fffebd882d39c25d";
+    hash = "sha256-lEXQwhx2msnJkkRrTkAwYttlYTISyH/Z7dSalqRrOhI=";
   };
-  # authors seem to have created their own build system
-  format = "other";
 
   postPatch = ''
     # tarball doesn't appear to have been shipped totally ready-to-build
@@ -27,17 +31,14 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
       --replace \
         'shell_cmd(["git"' \
         '"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000" or shell_cmd(["git"'
-    echo '${version}' > VERSION.txt
+    # TODO revert back to use ${version} when bumping to the next stable release
+    echo '1.0' > VERSION.txt
 
     # don't make assumptions about architecture
     sed -i '/-m64/d' ci/ext.py
   '';
   DT_RELEASE = "1";
 
-  buildPhase = ''
-    python ci/ext.py wheel
-  '';
-
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ typesentry blessed ];
   buildInputs = [ llvm pipInstallHook ];
   checkInputs = [ docutils pytestCheckHook ];
@@ -62,8 +63,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/h2oai/datatable";
     license = licenses.mpl20;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbradar ];
-    # uses custom build system and adds -Wunused-variable -Werror
-    # warning: ‘dt::expr::doc_first’ defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
-    broken = isPy310;
   };
 }