diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sorl_thumbnail/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sorl-thumbnail/default.nix
similarity index 50%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/sorl_thumbnail/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/python-modules/sorl-thumbnail/default.nix
index dedd7864f24e..2337d6b940c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sorl_thumbnail/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sorl-thumbnail/default.nix
@@ -1,28 +1,46 @@
 { lib
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchPypi
-, isPy27
+, pythonOlder
+, setuptools
 , setuptools-scm
+, django
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "sorl-thumbnail";
-  version = "12.9.0";
-  disabled = isPy27;
+  version = "12.10.0";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.8";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    hash = "sha256-DLwvUhUufyJm48LLSuXYOv0ulv1eHELlZnNiuqo9LbM=";
+    hash = "sha256-3pWkkhf9/s7SIvo86qAdMS7i+KrVa6NNbHDy3umoSTg=";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ setuptools-scm ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    setuptools
+    setuptools-scm
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    django
+  ];
+
+  env.DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = "sorl.thumbnail.conf.defaults";
+
   # Disabled due to an improper configuration error when tested against django. This looks like something broken in the test cases for sorl.
   doCheck = false;
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "sorl.thumbnail"
+  ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://sorl-thumbnail.readthedocs.org/en/latest/";
     description = "Thumbnails for Django";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/jazzband/sorl-thumbnail/blob/${version}/CHANGES.rst";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
   };
-
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 30a0d6472232..b2e04a44b428 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   smart_open = smart-open; # added 2021-03-14
   smmap2 = throw "smmap2 has been deprecated, use smmap instead."; # added 2020-03-14
   somecomfort = throw "somecomfort was removed because Home Assistant switched to aiosomecomfort"; # added 2023-02-01
+  sorl_thumbnail = sorl-thumbnail; # added 2023-11-12
   SPARQLWrapper = sparqlwrapper;
   sphinx-jquery = sphinxcontrib-jquery; # added 2023-02-24
   sphinx_pypi_upload = throw "sphinx_pypi_upload has been removed since it is abandoned."; # added 2023-10-11
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 41cf6b5344fc..0b5471339e0c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13094,7 +13094,7 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   sopel = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sopel { };
 
-  sorl_thumbnail = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sorl_thumbnail { };
+  sorl-thumbnail = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sorl-thumbnail { };
 
   sortedcollections = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sortedcollections { };