diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
index 03afcfe75ae..774fbc28793 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv, fetchPypi, python, buildPythonPackage, isPy3k, pycairo, backports_functools_lru_cache
 , which, cycler, dateutil, nose, numpy, pyparsing, sphinx, tornado, kiwisolver
 , freetype, libpng, pkgconfig, mock, pytz, pygobject3, gobject-introspection
+, pillow
 , enableGhostscript ? true, ghostscript ? null, gtk3
 , enableGtk3 ? false, cairo
 # darwin has its own "MacOSX" backend
@@ -19,14 +20,14 @@ assert enableTk -> (tcl != null)
 assert enableQt -> pyqt5 != null;
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  version = "3.2.1";
+  version = "3.3.0";
   pname = "matplotlib";
 
   disabled = !isPy3k;
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "ffe2f9cdcea1086fc414e82f42271ecf1976700b8edd16ca9d376189c6d93aee";
+    sha256 = "24e8db94948019d531ce0bcd637ac24b1c8f6744ac86d2aa0eb6dbaeb1386f82";
   };
 
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR = "/tmp";
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs =
     [ cycler dateutil numpy pyparsing tornado freetype kiwisolver
-      libpng mock pytz ]
+      libpng mock pytz pillow ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optionals enableGtk3 [ cairo pycairo gtk3 gobject-introspection pygobject3 ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optionals enableTk [ tcl tk tkinter libX11 ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optionals enableQt [ pyqt5 ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/setup.cfg b/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/setup.cfg
index 6f81985efa4..6a773862765 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/setup.cfg
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/setup.cfg
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 [directories]
 basedirlist = .
+
+[libs]
+system_freetype = true