diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 01e3150ede1..cb934ae3752 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ basexx,,,,,
 binaryheap,,,,,vcunat
 bit32,,,,lua5_1,lblasc
 busted,,,,,
+cassowary,,,,,marsam
 cjson,lua-cjson,,,,
 compat53,,,,,vcunat
+cosmo,,,,,marsam
 coxpcall,,,1.17.0-1,,
 cqueues,,,,,vcunat
 cyrussasl,,,,,vcunat
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index d95ce128b73..58af59c1971 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -158,6 +158,23 @@ busted = buildLuarocksPackage {
     };
   };
 };
+cassowary = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "cassowary";
+  version = "2.2-1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = mirror://luarocks/cassowary-2.2-1.src.rock;
+    sha256 = "0laghzk5jbap5rfd8sasnrdrbda649sfciarba8rhygm0qni1azy";
+  };
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua penlight ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/simoncozens/cassowary.lua";
+    description = "The cassowary constraint solver.";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ marsam ];
+    license.fullName = "Apache 2";
+  };
+};
 cjson = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "lua-cjson";
   version = "2.1.0.6-1";
@@ -197,6 +214,23 @@ compat53 = buildLuarocksPackage {
     };
   };
 };
+cosmo = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "cosmo";
+  version = "16.06.04-1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = mirror://luarocks/cosmo-16.06.04-1.src.rock;
+    sha256 = "1adrk74j0x1yzhy0xz9k80hphxdjvm09kpwpbx00sk3kic6db0ww";
+  };
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lpeg ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "http://cosmo.luaforge.net";
+    description = "Safe templates for Lua";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ marsam ];
+    license.fullName = "MIT/X11";
+  };
+};
 coxpcall = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "coxpcall";
   version = "1.17.0-1";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/sile/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/sile/default.nix
index 3b6ec809869..5bb4c5b7fb2 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/sile/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/sile/default.nix
@@ -1,26 +1,28 @@
-{ stdenv, darwin, fetchurl, makeWrapper, pkgconfig
+{ stdenv, darwin, fetchurl, makeWrapper, pkgconfig, autoconf, automake
 , harfbuzz, icu
 , fontconfig, lua, libiconv
-, makeFontsConf, gentium, gentium-book-basic, dejavu_fonts
+, makeFontsConf, gentium
 }:
 
 with stdenv.lib;
 
 let
-  luaEnv = lua.withPackages(ps: with ps;[ lpeg luaexpat lua-zlib luafilesystem luasocket luasec]);
+  luaEnv = lua.withPackages(ps: with ps;[cassowary cosmo compat53 linenoise lpeg lua-zlib lua_cliargs luaepnf luaexpat luafilesystem luarepl luasec luasocket stdlib vstruct]);
 
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "sile";
-  version = "0.9.5.1";
+  version = "0.10.3";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/releases/download/v${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0fh0jbpsyqyq0hzq4midn7yw2z11hqdgqb9mmgz766cp152wrkb0";
+    url = "https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/releases/download/v${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "d89d5ce7d2bf46fb062e5299ffd8b5d821dc3cb3462a0e7c1109edeee111d856";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [pkgconfig makeWrapper];
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-system-luarocks" ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake pkgconfig makeWrapper ];
   buildInputs = [ harfbuzz icu fontconfig libiconv luaEnv ]
   ++ optional stdenv.isDarwin darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.AppKit
   ;
@@ -34,23 +36,26 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   FONTCONFIG_FILE = makeFontsConf {
     fontDirectories = [
       gentium
-      gentium-book-basic
-      dejavu_fonts
     ];
   };
 
-  doCheck = stdenv.targetPlatform == stdenv.hostPlatform
+  # TODO: needs to tweak Makefile-fonts to avoid download fonts
+  doCheck = false; /*stdenv.targetPlatform == stdenv.hostPlatform
   && ! stdenv.isAarch64 # random seg. faults
   && ! stdenv.isDarwin; # dy lib not found
+ */
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  checkPhase = ''
-    make documentation/developers.pdf documentation/sile.pdf
+  preBuild = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.cc.isClang ''
+    substituteInPlace libtexpdf/dpxutil.c \
+      --replace "ASSERT(ht && ht->table && iter);" "ASSERT(ht && iter);"
   '';
 
+  checkTarget = "examples";
+
   postInstall = ''
-    install -D -t $out/share/doc/sile documentation/*.pdf
+    install -D -t $out/share/doc/sile documentation/sile.pdf
   '';
 
   # Hack to avoid TMPDIR in RPATHs.
@@ -70,7 +75,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       technologies and borrowing some ideas from graphical systems
       such as InDesign.
     '';
-    homepage = http://www.sile-typesetter.org;
+    homepage = "https://sile-typesetter.org/";
     platforms = platforms.unix;
     license = licenses.mit;
   };