diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/milc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/milc/default.nix
index 998f0a58b2b..afdab1194b7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/milc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/milc/default.nix
@@ -4,31 +4,32 @@
 , appdirs
 , argcomplete
 , colorama
-, gnugrep
+, nose2
+, semver
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "milc";
-  version = "1.0.10";
+  version = "1.3.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "clueboard";
     repo = "milc";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "04mk057b6jh0k4maqkg80kpilxak9r7vlr9xqwzczh2gs3g2x573";
+    sha256 = "sha256-koyOBz+pB/vkTHOR1p77ACO11/ULDIBzqsszUUpnE88=";
   };
 
-  checkInputs = [ gnugrep ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ appdirs argcomplete colorama ];
 
-  # Upstream has a nose2 test suite that runs this hello script in a handful of
-  # ways, but it's not in setup.py and makes assumptions about relative paths in
-  # the src repo, so just sanity-check basic functionality.
+  checkInputs = [ nose2 semver ];
+
   checkPhase = ''
-    patchShebangs ./hello
-    ./hello | grep "Hello, World"
+    patchShebangs example hello
+    nose2
   '';
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "milc" ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "An Opinionated Batteries-Included Python 3 CLI Framework";
     homepage = "https://milc.clueboard.co";