diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 204a23c6286..692d9fc02a7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -2446,6 +2446,7 @@ extra-packages:
   - binary > 0.8 && < 0.9               # keep a 8.x major release around for older compilers
   - Cabal == 1.18.*                     # required for cabal-install et al on old GHC versions
   - Cabal == 1.20.*                     # required for cabal-install et al on old GHC versions
+  - Cabal == 1.24.*                     # required for jailbreak-cabal etc.
   - containers < 0.5                    # required to build alex with GHC 6.12.3
   - control-monad-free < 0.6            # newer versions don't compile with anything but GHC 7.8.x
   - deepseq == 1.3.0.1                  # required to build Cabal with GHC 6.12.3