diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/osinfo-db/default.nix b/pkgs/data/misc/osinfo-db/default.nix
index 7fb2aa2f8117..4460e7b40d7c 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/misc/osinfo-db/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/misc/osinfo-db/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "osinfo-db";
-  version = "20200214";
+  version = "20200515";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://releases.pagure.org/libosinfo/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1fpdb8r8kzwp1k5dc9xyy9jr2jr3haq7n9b6spamm599zvzf8nb6";
+    sha256 = "1m9idmmb1sjf24lp9lgng2m1jj09mn9fa9pnz36fdv5q0lskgscj";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ osinfo-db-tools intltool libxml2 ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libosinfo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libosinfo/default.nix
index 79bd53ab03b3..39a3bf6b2c55 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libosinfo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libosinfo/default.nix
@@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-Denable-gtk-doc=true"
   ];
 
-  # FIXME: fails two new tests added in 1.7.1:
-  # libosinfo:symbols / check-symfile
-  # 3/24 libosinfo:symbols / check-symsorting
-  doCheck = false;
+  preCheck = ''
+    patchShebangs ../osinfo/check-symfile.pl ../osinfo/check-symsorting.pl
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = true;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "GObject based library API for managing information about operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they can support";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/osinfo-db-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/osinfo-db-tools/default.nix
index 3e678b1d378a..a93ec0ab573f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/osinfo-db-tools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/osinfo-db-tools/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, gettext, glib, libxml2, perl
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, meson, ninja, gettext, glib, libxml2, perl, python3
 , libxslt, libarchive, bzip2, lzma, json-glib, libsoup
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "osinfo-db-tools";
-  version = "1.6.0";
+  version = "1.7.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://releases.pagure.org/libosinfo/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0x155d4hqz7mabgqvgydqjm9d8aabc78vr0v0pnsp9vkdlcv3mfh";
+    url = "https://releases.pagure.org/libosinfo/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "08x8mrafphyll0d35xdc143rip3ahrz6bmzhc85nwhq7yk2vxpab";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig gettext perl ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja pkgconfig gettext perl python3 ];
   buildInputs = [ glib json-glib libxml2 libxslt libarchive bzip2 lzma libsoup ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {