diff --git a/gnu/packages/shellutils.scm b/gnu/packages/shellutils.scm
index e688e243e2b..fb744a3c324 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/shellutils.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/shellutils.scm
@@ -905,19 +905,26 @@ bookmark your favourite commands.")
     (license license:asl2.0)))
 
 (define-public shell-functools
+  ;; v0.3.0 was released in 2018, there are changes providing fixes to the
+  ;; test suite, use the latest commit.
+  (let ((commit "530e3b6f098c41869f9dc47d1a3005e12ce300c0")
+        (revision "0"))
   (package
     (name "shell-functools")
-    (version "0.3.0")
+    (version (git-version "0.3.0" revision commit))
     (source (origin
               (method git-fetch)
               (uri (git-reference
                     (url "https://github.com/sharkdp/shell-functools")
-                    (commit (string-append "v" version))))
+                    (commit commit)))
               (file-name (git-file-name name version))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "0d6zzg7cxfrzwzh1wmpj7q85kz33sak6ac59ncsm6dlbin12h0hi"))))
-    (build-system python-build-system)
+                "0l23n5anppxds4678qnh84mykbdb7qxyjrxxjzm7kin7izfzczpa"))))
+    (build-system pyproject-build-system)
+    (native-inputs
+     (list python-pytest
+           python-hatchling))
     (home-page "https://github.com/sharkdp/shell-functools/")
     (synopsis "Functional programming tools for the shell")
     (description "This package provides higher order functions like map,
@@ -925,7 +932,7 @@ filter, foldl, sort_by and take_while as simple command-line tools.  Following
 the UNIX philosophy, these commands are designed to be composed via pipes.  A
 large collection of functions such as basename, replace, contains or is_dir
 are provided as arguments to these commands.")
-    (license license:expat)))
+    (license license:expat))))
 
 (define-public rig
   (package