diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ignite/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ignite/default.nix
index cd682072707d..785ec5814918 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ignite/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ignite/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , pytest
+, matplotlib
 , mock
 , pytorch
 , pynvml
@@ -11,24 +12,24 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "ignite";
-  version = "0.2.1";
+  version = "0.3.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "pytorch";
     repo = pname;
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "15k6dd11yxn4923llcpmw4srl1by5ljhh7aw5pnkn4n4qpywh6cm";
+    sha256 = "0i863kxi1r1hspj19lhn6r8256vdazjcyvis0s33fgzrf7kxi08x";
   };
 
-  checkInputs = [ pytest mock ];
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    pytest -k 'not visdom and not tensorboard and not mlflow and not polyaxon' tests/
-  '';
-  # these packages are not currently in nixpkgs
-
+  checkInputs = [ pytest matplotlib mock ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ pytorch scikitlearn tqdm pynvml ];
 
+  # Some packages are not in NixPkgs; other tests try to build distributed
+  # models, which doesn't work in the sandbox.
+  checkPhase = ''
+    pytest -k 'not visdom and not tensorboard and not mlflow and not polyaxon and not conftest and not engines and not distrib_' tests/
+  '';
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "High-level training library for PyTorch";
     homepage = "https://pytorch.org/ignite";