diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/tasknc/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/tasknc/default.nix
index d24a7d3e0d1..5250581762b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/tasknc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/tasknc/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, makeWrapper, perl, ncurses5, taskwarrior }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, makeWrapper, perl, ncurses5, taskwarrior }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "2020-12-17";
@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0jrv2k1yizfdjndbl06lmy2bb62ky2rjdk308967j31c5kqqnw56";
   };
 
+  # Pull pending upstream inclusion for ncurses-6.3:
+  #  https://github.com/lharding/tasknc/pull/57
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "ncurses-6.3.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/lharding/tasknc/commit/f74ea0641e9bf287acf22fac9f6eeea571b01800.patch";
+      sha256 = "18a90zj85sw2zfnfcv055nvi0lx3h8lcgsyabdfk94ksn78pygrv";
+    })
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     makeWrapper
     perl # For generating the man pages with pod2man