diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 5c016f633f6..99cd74c5bab 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1416,4 +1416,7 @@ self: super: {
   # brittany release in a while and this version works with 8.10.
   # And we need to build it anyways.
   brittany = dontCheck super.hls-brittany;
+
+  # 2020-11-15: aeson 1.5.4.1 needs to new quickcheck-instances for testing
+  aeson = dontCheck super.aeson;
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super