diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
index 8bb332fa9da..ecfbc98530e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 { stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, glibcLocales, mock, pytest, botocore,
   testfixtures, pillow, six, twisted, w3lib, lxml, queuelib, pyopenssl,
-  service-identity, parsel, pydispatcher, cssselect, lib, fetchpatch }:
+  service-identity, parsel, pydispatcher, cssselect, lib }:
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  version = "1.5.1";
+  version = "1.6.0";
   pname = "Scrapy";
 
   checkInputs = [ glibcLocales mock pytest botocore testfixtures pillow ];
@@ -16,25 +16,21 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     # root and readonly. As a consequence scrapy can't edit the
     # project templates.
     ./permissions-fix.patch
-    # fix python37 issues. Remove with the next release
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/f4f39057cbbfa4daf66f82061e57101b88d88d05.patch;
-      sha256 = "1f761qkji362i20i5bzcxz44sihvl29prm02i5l2xyhgl1hp91hv";
-    })
   ];
 
   LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8";
 
+  # Disable doctest plugin—enabled in the shipped pytest.ini—because it causes pytest to hang
   # Ignore proxy tests because requires mitmproxy
   # Ignore test_retry_dns_error because tries to resolve an invalid dns and weirdly fails with "Reactor was unclean"
   # Ignore xml encoding test on darwin because lxml can't find encodings https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/707396
   checkPhase = ''
-    pytest --ignore=tests/test_linkextractors_deprecated.py --ignore=tests/test_proxy_connect.py --deselect tests/test_crawl.py::CrawlTestCase::test_retry_dns_error ${lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin "--deselect tests/test_utils_iterators.py::LxmlXmliterTestCase::test_xmliter_encoding"}
+    pytest -p no:doctest --ignore=tests/test_linkextractors_deprecated.py --ignore=tests/test_proxy_connect.py --deselect tests/test_crawl.py::CrawlTestCase::test_retry_dns_error ${lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin "--deselect tests/test_utils_iterators.py::LxmlXmliterTestCase::test_xmliter_encoding"}
   '';
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "5a398bf6818f87dcc817c919408a195f19ba46414ae12f259119336cfa862bb6";
+    sha256 = "558dfd10ac53cb324ecd7eefd3eac412161c7507c082b01b0bcd2c6e2e9f0766";
   };
 
   postInstall = ''