diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/tuptime.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/tuptime.nix
index 731260a5c20..8f79d916599 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/tuptime.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/tuptime.nix
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ in {
 
     environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.tuptime ];
 
-    users.users.tuptime.description = "tuptime database owner";
+    users = {
+      groups._tuptime.members = [ "_tuptime" ];
+      users._tuptime.description = "tuptime database owner";
+    };
 
     systemd = {
       services = {
@@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ in {
           serviceConfig = {
             StateDirectory = "tuptime";
             Type = "oneshot";
-            User = "tuptime";
+            User = "_tuptime";
             RemainAfterExit = true;
             ExecStart = "${pkgs.tuptime}/bin/tuptime -x";
             ExecStop = "${pkgs.tuptime}/bin/tuptime -xg";
@@ -57,7 +60,7 @@ in {
           serviceConfig = {
             StateDirectory = "tuptime";
             Type = "oneshot";
-            User = "tuptime";
+            User = "_tuptime";
             ExecStart = "${pkgs.tuptime}/bin/tuptime -x";
           };
         };
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/tuptime/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/tuptime/default.nix
index acc96998952..abfc8ae5ac8 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/tuptime/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/tuptime/default.nix
@@ -1,28 +1,37 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, python3 }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub
+, makeWrapper, installShellFiles
+, python3, sqlite }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "tuptime";
-  version = "4.1.0";
+  version = "5.0.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "rfrail3";
     repo = "tuptime";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "0p5v1jp6bl0hjv04q3gh11q6dx9z0x61h6svcbvwp5ni0h1bkz1a";
+    sha256 = "0izps85p8pxidfrzp7l4hp221fx3dcgapapsix1zavq6jrsl2qyh";
   };
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper installShellFiles ];
+
   buildInputs = [ python3 ];
 
+  outputs = [ "out" "man" ];
+
   installPhase = ''
     mkdir -p $out/bin
-    install -m 755 src/tuptime $out/bin/
+    install -m 755 $src/src/tuptime $out/bin/
 
-    mkdir -p $out/share/man/man1
-    cp src/man/tuptime.1 $out/share/man/man1/
+    installManPage $src/src/man/tuptime.1
 
-    # upstream only ships this, there are more scripts there...
-    mkdir -p $out/usr/share/doc/tuptime/contrib
-    cp misc/scripts/uptimed-to-tuptime.py $out/usr/share/doc/tuptime/contrib/
+    install -Dm 0755 $src/misc/scripts/db-tuptime-migrate-4.0-to-5.0.sh \
+      $out/share/tuptime/db-tuptime-migrate-4.0-to-5.0.sh
+  '';
+
+  preFixup = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/share/tuptime/db-tuptime-migrate-4.0-to-5.0.sh \
+      --prefix PATH : "${stdenv.lib.makeBinPath [ sqlite ]}"
   '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {