diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/Logbook/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/Logbook/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..711f0f5457b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/Logbook/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k, pytest, mock, brotli }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "Logbook";
+  version = "1.4.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1n8wzm2nc99gbvb44y2fbb59sy3c4awkwfgy4pbwv7z892ykw2iw";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ] ++ lib.optionals (!isPy3k) [ mock ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ brotli ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    find tests -name \*.pyc -delete
+    py.test tests
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://pythonhosted.org/Logbook/;
+    description = "A logging replacement for Python";
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/Nikola/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/Nikola/default.nix
index d0045c9fb7f..bf4171dd3f9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/Nikola/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/Nikola/default.nix
@@ -25,30 +25,39 @@
 , markdown
 , phpserialize
 , jinja2
+, Babel
+, freezegun
+, pyyaml
+, toml
+, notebook
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "Nikola";
-  version = "7.8.15";
+  version = "8.0.1";
 
   # Nix contains only Python 3 supported version of doit, which is a dependency
   # of Nikola. Python 2 support would require older doit 0.29.0 (which on the
   # other hand doesn't support Python 3.3). So, just disable Python 2.
   disabled = !isPy3k;
 
-  checkInputs = [ pytest pytestcov mock glibcLocales ];
+  checkInputs = [ pytest pytestcov mock glibcLocales freezegun ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     pygments pillow dateutil docutils Mako unidecode lxml Yapsy PyRSS2Gen
     Logbook blinker setuptools natsort requests piexif markdown phpserialize
-    jinja2 doit
+    jinja2 doit Babel pyyaml toml notebook
   ];
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "182b4b9254f0d710603ba491853429ad6ef3f955f3e718191336b44cfd649000";
+    sha256 = "18bq68f9v7xk9ahjl6x4k77yysq5g6g07ng2ndbg35kcsdnw4nk6";
   };
 
+  checkPhase = ''
+    LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" py.test .
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     homepage = https://getnikola.com/;
     description = "A modular, fast, simple, static website and blog generator";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/brotli/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/brotli/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5366eeb9c23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/brotli/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, pytest }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "brotli";
+  version = "1.0.5";
+
+  # PyPI doesn't contain tests so let's use GitHub
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "google";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0ssj7mnhpdpk7qnwr49qfd4gxhkmvbli5mhs274pz55cx1xp7xja";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    pytest python/tests
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/google/brotli;
+    description = "Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 6c495cdabde..9c4b6f56f1e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ in {
 
   breathe = callPackage ../development/python-modules/breathe { };
 
+  brotli = callPackage ../development/python-modules/brotli { };
+
   browser-cookie3 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/browser-cookie3 { };
 
   browsermob-proxy = disabledIf isPy3k (callPackage ../development/python-modules/browsermob-proxy {});
@@ -9315,28 +9317,7 @@ EOF
     };
   };
 
-  Logbook = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "Logbook-${version}";
-    version = "1.0.0";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/L/Logbook/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0whqbx5p0zkf7gmb5ssnsnhm4kn4drd4x7fbhdi8dnxklqajbnl7";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [ self.pytest ] ++ optionals (!isPy3k) [ self.mock ];
-
-    checkPhase = ''
-      find tests -name \*.pyc -delete
-      py.test tests
-    '';
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = https://pythonhosted.org/Logbook/;
-      description = "A logging replacement for Python";
-      license = licenses.bsd3;
-    };
-  };
+  Logbook = callPackage ../development/python-modules/Logbook { };
 
   libversion = callPackage ../development/python-modules/libversion {
     inherit (pkgs) libversion;