diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
index f5d25626bcf1..aced6675495d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ftfy/default.nix
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   name = "${pname}-${version}";
   pname = "ftfy";
-  version = "5.1.1";
+  # latest is 5.1.1, buy spaCy requires 4.4.3
+  version = "4.4.3";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "67a29a2fad5f72aec2d8a0a7084e4f499ed040455133ee96b1c458609fc29e78";        
+    sha256 = "152xdb56rhs1q4r0ck1n557sbphw7zq18r75a7kkd159ckdnc01w";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ html5lib wcwidth];
@@ -38,6 +39,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     description = "Given Unicode text, make its representation consistent and possibly less broken.";
     homepage = https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy/tree/master/tests;
     license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ sdll ];    
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ sdll ];
     };
 }