diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 1cb6a83d42ae..8cce4049e749 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ mediator_lua,,,,,,
 mpack,,,,,,
 moonscript,,,,,,arobyn
 nvim-client,https://github.com/neovim/lua-client.git,,,,,
-penlight,https://github.com/Tieske/Penlight.git,,,,,
+penlight,https://github.com/lunarmodules/Penlight.git,,,,,alerque
 plenary.nvim,https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim.git,,,,lua5_1,
 rapidjson,https://github.com/xpol/lua-rapidjson.git,,,,,
 readline,,,,,,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 6f5ffbce9c5b..06020551513f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -1957,15 +1957,18 @@ nvim-client = buildLuarocksPackage {
 
 penlight = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "penlight";
-  version = "dev-1";
-
+  version = "1.11.0-1";
+  knownRockspec = (fetchurl {
+    url    = "https://luarocks.org/penlight-1.11.0-1.rockspec";
+    sha256 = "1sjhnywvamyi9fadhra5pw2an1rhy2hk2byfxmr3n5wi0xrqv004";
+  }).outPath;
   src = fetchgit ( removeAttrs (builtins.fromJSON ''{
   "url": "https://github.com/lunarmodules/penlight.git",
   "rev": "e3712f00fae09a166dd62540b677600165d5bcd7",
   "date": "2021-08-18T21:37:47+02:00",
   "path": "/nix/store/i70ndw8qhvcm828ifb3vyj08y22xp0ka-penlight",
   "sha256": "19n9xqkb4hlak0k7hamk4ixwjvyxslsnyh1zjazdzrl8n736xhkl",
-  "fetchSubmodules": true,
+  "fetchSubmodules": false,
   "deepClone": false,
   "leaveDotGit": false
 }
@@ -1973,12 +1976,13 @@ penlight = buildLuarocksPackage {
 
   disabled = (luaOlder "5.1");
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua luafilesystem ];
-  checkInputs = [ busted busted ];
+  checkInputs = [ busted ];
   doCheck = false;
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://lunarmodules.github.io/penlight";
     description = "Lua utility libraries loosely based on the Python standard libraries";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alerque ];
     license.fullName = "MIT/X11";
   };
 };