diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index a062cbcb36a..8f312412878 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -9326,15 +9326,26 @@ in {
   };
 
   joblib = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "joblib-${version}";
-    version = "0.9.4";
+    pname = "joblib";
+    name = "${pname}-${version}";
+    version = "0.10.3";
     src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/j/joblib/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "e5faacf0da7b3035dbca9d56210962b86564aafca71a25f4ea376a405455cd60";
+      url = "mirror://pypi/${builtins.substring 0 1 pname}/${pname}/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "29b2965a9efbc90a5fe66a389ae35ac5b5b0c1feabfc7cab7fd5d19f429a071d";
     };
 
-    buildInputs = with self; [ nose ];
+    buildInputs = with self; [ nose sphinx numpydoc ];
 
+    # Failing test on Python 3.x
+    postPatch = '''' + optionalString isPy3k ''
+      sed -i -e '70,84d' joblib/test/test_format_stack.py
+    '';
+
+    meta = {
+      description = "Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs";
+      homepage = http://pythonhosted.org/joblib/;
+      license = licenses.bsd3;
+    };
   };
 
   samplerate = buildPythonPackage rec {