diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/igraph/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/igraph/default.nix
index fcb5e7918d9..6b6924b7d41 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/igraph/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/igraph/default.nix
@@ -4,24 +4,28 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "igraph";
-  version = "0.7.1";
+  version = "0.8.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "igraph";
     repo = pname;
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "1wsy0r511gk069il6iqjs27q8cjvqz20gf0a7inybx1bw84845z8";
+    sha256 = "015yh9s19lmxm7l1ld8adlsqh1lrmzicl801saixdwl9w05hfva4";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig autoreconfHook ];
   buildInputs = [ flex yacc zlib libxml2 ];
 
-  # This file is normally generated by igraph's bootstrap.sh, but we can do it
-  # ourselves. ~ C.
+  # Normally, igraph wants us to call bootstrap.sh, which will call
+  # tools/getversion.sh. Instead, we're going to put the version directly
+  # where igraph wants, and then let autoreconfHook do the rest of the
+  # bootstrap. ~ C.
   postPatch = ''
-    echo "${version}" > VERSION
+    echo "${version}" > IGRAPH_VERSION
   '';
 
+  doCheck = true;
+
   meta = {
     description = "The network analysis package";
     homepage = "https://igraph.org/";