diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
index 2408d893dae..a56d8a0a0e2 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils haskellPackages.cabal2nix-latest -I nixpkgs=.
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils haskellPackages.cabal2nix-unstable -I nixpkgs=.
 
 # This script is used to regenerate nixpkgs' Haskell package set, using a tool
 # called hackage2nix. hackage2nix looks at
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # companion tool cabal2nix.
 #
 # Related scripts are update-hackage.sh, for updating the snapshot of the
-# Hackage database used by hackage2nix, and update-cabal2nix-latest.sh,
+# Hackage database used by hackage2nix, and update-cabal2nix-unstable.sh,
 # for updating the version of hackage2nix used to perform this task.
 
 set -euo pipefail
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-cabal2nix-latest.sh b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-cabal2nix-unstable.sh
similarity index 68%
rename from maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-cabal2nix-latest.sh
rename to maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-cabal2nix-unstable.sh
index e8018e1384d..41583704560 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-cabal2nix-latest.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-cabal2nix-unstable.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils curl jq gnused haskellPackages.cabal2nix-latest -I nixpkgs=.
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils curl jq gnused haskellPackages.cabal2nix-unstable -I nixpkgs=.
 
-# Updates cabal2nix-latest to the latest master of the nixos/cabal2nix repository.
+# Updates cabal2nix-unstable to the latest master of the nixos/cabal2nix repository.
 # See regenerate-hackage-packages.sh for details on the purpose of this script.
 
 set -euo pipefail
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ commit="$(jq -r .commit.sha <<< "$head_info")"
 # extract commit timestamp and convert to date
 date="$(date "--date=$(jq -r .commit.commit.committer.date <<< "$head_info")" +%F)"
 # generate nix expression from cabal file, replacing the version with the commit date
-echo '# This file defines cabal2nix-latest, used by maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh.' > pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix
-cabal2nix "https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/archive/$commit.tar.gz" | sed -e 's/version = ".*"/version = "'"unstable-$date"'"/' >> pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix
+echo '# This file defines cabal2nix-unstable, used by maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh.' > pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-unstable.nix
+cabal2nix "https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/archive/$commit.tar.gz" | sed -e 's/version = ".*"/version = "'"unstable-$date"'"/' >> pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-unstable.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-unstable.nix
similarity index 93%
rename from pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix
rename to pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-unstable.nix
index a8b37e4e46e..3b8a85881f5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-unstable.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file defines cabal2nix-latest, used by maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh.
+# This file defines cabal2nix-unstable, used by maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh.
 { mkDerivation, aeson, ansi-wl-pprint, base, bytestring, Cabal
 , containers, deepseq, directory, distribution-nixpkgs, fetchzip
 , filepath, hackage-db, hopenssl, hpack, language-nix, lens, lib
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 8b2151e995b..baa65bb2181 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1793,8 +1793,8 @@ self: super: {
   # https://github.com/obsidiansystems/database-id/issues/1
   database-id-class = doJailbreak super.database-id-class;
 
-  cabal2nix-latest = overrideCabal super.cabal2nix-latest {
-    passthru.updateScript = ../../../maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-cabal2nix-latest.sh;
+  cabal2nix-unstable = overrideCabal super.cabal2nix-unstable {
+    passthru.updateScript = ../../../maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-cabal2nix-unstable.sh;
   };
 
   # Too strict version bounds on base and optparse-applicative
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
index 7c3c43fd9dc..1882d68f234 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ self: super: {
 
   # Used by maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh, and generated
   # from the latest master instead of the current version on Hackage.
-  cabal2nix-latest = self.callPackage ./cabal2nix-latest.nix { };
+  cabal2nix-unstable = self.callPackage ./cabal2nix-unstable.nix { };
 
   # https://github.com/channable/vaultenv/issues/1
   vaultenv = self.callPackage ../tools/haskell/vaultenv { };