diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ba/backgroundremover/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ba/backgroundremover/package.nix
index e6303bb377b7..67c2f2eaa6a8 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ba/backgroundremover/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ba/backgroundremover/package.nix
@@ -3,20 +3,21 @@
 , runCommand
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , fetchurl
+, gitUpdater
 }:
 
 let
   p = python3.pkgs;
   self = p.buildPythonApplication rec {
     pname = "backgroundremover";
-    version = "0.2.6";
+    version = "0.2.8";
     pyproject = true;
 
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       owner = "nadermx";
       repo = "backgroundremover";
       rev = "v${version}";
-      hash = "sha256-dDOo7NPwvdfV+ae2oMUytCGC+2HF6xUI7dyKk2we23w=";
+      hash = "sha256-LjVT4j0OzfbVSQgU0z/gzRTLm7N0RQRrfxtTugWwOxs=";
     };
 
     models = runCommand "background-remover-models" {} ''
@@ -31,7 +32,9 @@ let
         --replace 'os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".u2net", model_name + ".pth"))' "os.path.join(\"$models\", model_name + \".pth\")"
     '';
 
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ p.setuptools p.wheel ];
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ p.setuptools p.wheel p.pythonRelaxDepsHook ];
+
+    pythonRelaxDeps = [ "pillow" "torchvision" ];
 
     propagatedBuildInputs = [
       p.certifi
@@ -76,6 +79,7 @@ let
           backgroundremover -i ${demoImage} -o $out
         '';
       };
+      updateScript = gitUpdater { rev-prefix = "v"; };
     };
 
     doCheck = false; # no tests