diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ti/tigerbeetle/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ti/tigerbeetle/package.nix
index 1cebaa629e87..3961816fffbf 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ti/tigerbeetle/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ti/tigerbeetle/package.nix
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       package = tigerbeetle;
       command = "tigerbeetle version";
     };
-    updateScript = nix-update-script { };
+    updateScript = ./update.sh;
   };
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ti/tigerbeetle/update.sh b/pkgs/by-name/ti/tigerbeetle/update.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..903d875df681
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ti/tigerbeetle/update.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq nix mktemp unzip gnused
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+latest_release_info=$(curl -s ${GITHUB_TOKEN:+ -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN"} https://api.github.com/repos/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/releases?per_page=5 | jq -r "map(select(.properties.draft and .properties.prerelease | not)) | .[0]")
+latestVersion=$(jq -r ".tag_name" <<< $latest_release_info)
+currentVersion=$(nix-instantiate --eval -E "let pkgs = import ./. {}; in pkgs.tigerbeetle.version" | tr -d '"')
+
+if [[ "$currentVersion" == "$latestVersion" ]]
+then
+    echo "New version same as old version, nothing to do." >&2
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+# Note: our own nix-prefetch-url impersonation because the way that nix-prefetch-url treats tigerbeetle's zip files (which are just a single executable, no directories) is different from how Nixpkgs's fetchzip treats them.
+retrieved_hash=""
+function retrieve_hash {
+    download_dir=$(mktemp -d)
+    curl -s --location $1 --output "$download_dir/tigerbeetle.zip"
+    unzip -q "$download_dir/tigerbeetle.zip" -d "$download_dir"
+    rm "$download_dir/tigerbeetle.zip"
+    retrieved_hash=$(nix --extra-experimental-features nix-command hash path "$download_dir")
+    rm -rf "$download_dir"
+}
+
+nixFile=$(nix-instantiate --eval --strict -A "tigerbeetle.meta.position" | sed -re 's/^"(.*):[0-9]+"$/\1/')
+
+sed -i "s|\(version = \"\)\(.*\)\"|\1$latestVersion\"|" $nixFile
+retrieve_hash "https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/releases/download/${latestVersion}/tigerbeetle-x86_64-linux.zip"
+sed -i "s|\(\"x86_64-linux\" = \"\)\(.*\)\"|\1$retrieved_hash\"|" $nixFile
+retrieve_hash "https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/releases/download/${latestVersion}/tigerbeetle-aarch64-linux.zip"
+sed -i "s|\(\"aarch64-linux\" = \"\)\(.*\)\"|\1$retrieved_hash\"|" $nixFile
+retrieve_hash "https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/releases/download/${latestVersion}/tigerbeetle-universal-macos.zip"
+sed -i "s|\(\"universal-macos\" = \"\)\(.*\)\"|\1$retrieved_hash\"|" $nixFile