diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/typical/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/typical/default.nix
index 8554b3ba8450..5cbdce7c6252 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/typical/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/typical/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fastjsonschema
 , fetchFromGitHub
-, fetchpatch
 , future-typing
 , inflection
 , mypy
@@ -19,17 +18,16 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "typical";
-  version = "2.8.0";
+  version = "2.8.1";
   format = "pyproject";
 
-  # Support for typing-extensions >= 4.0.0 on Python < 3.10 is missing
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.10";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "seandstewart";
     repo = "typical";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-DRjQmoZzWw5vpwIx70wQg6EO/aHqyX7RWpWZ9uOxSTg=";
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-2t9Jhdy9NmYBNzdtjjgUnoK2RDEUsAvDkYMcBRzEcmI=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -53,15 +51,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pandas
   ];
 
-  patches = [
-    # Switch to poetry-core, https://github.com/seandstewart/typical/pull/193
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "switch-to-poetry-core.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/seandstewart/typical/commit/66b3c34f8969b7fb1f684f0603e514405bab0dd7.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-c7qJOtHmJRnVEGl+OADB3HpjvMK8aYDD9+0gplOn9pQ=";
-    })
-  ];
-
   disabledTests = [
     # ConstraintValueError: Given value <{'key...
     "test_tagged_union_validate"
@@ -83,6 +72,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Python library for runtime analysis, inference and validation of Python types";
     homepage = "https://python-typical.org/";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/seandstewart/typical/releases/tag/v${version}";
     license = licenses.mit;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ kfollesdal ];
   };