diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/printbox/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/printbox/default.nix
index 28a53210f69..8dd4bbedd4b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/printbox/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/printbox/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, buildDunePackage, ocaml, mdx }:
+{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, buildDunePackage, ocaml, mdx, gitUpdater }:
 
 buildDunePackage rec {
   pname = "printbox";
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ buildDunePackage rec {
   # mdx is not available for OCaml < 4.08
   doCheck = lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "4.08";
 
+  passthru.updateScript = gitUpdater { rev-prefix = "v"; };
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/c-cube/printbox/";
     description = "Allows to print nested boxes, lists, arrays, tables in several formats";