diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/beaker/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/beaker/default.nix
index 7a17fd0f1d0a..3882af3a67df 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/beaker/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/beaker/default.nix
@@ -2,42 +2,75 @@
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , nose
+, pylibmc
+, memcached
+, redis
+, pymongo
 , mock
 , webtest
 , sqlalchemy
 , pycrypto
+, cryptography
 , isPy27
+, isPy3k
 , funcsigs
 , pycryptopp
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "Beaker";
-  version = "1.8.0";
+  version = "1.10.1";
 
   # The pypy release do not contains the tests
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "bbangert";
     repo = "beaker";
     rev = "${version}";
-    sha256 = "17yfr7a307n8rdl09was4j60xqk2s0hk0hywdkigrpj4qnw0is7g";
+    sha256 = "0xrvg503xmi28w0hllr4s7fkap0p09fgw2wax3p1s2r6b3xjvbz7";
   };
 
-  buildInputs =
-    [ nose
-      mock
-      webtest
-    ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     sqlalchemy
     pycrypto
+    cryptography
   ] ++ lib.optionals (isPy27) [
     funcsigs
     pycryptopp
   ];
 
+  checkInputs = [
+    nose
+    mock
+    webtest
+    pylibmc
+    memcached
+    redis
+    pymongo
+  ];
+
+
+  # Can not run memcached tests because it immediately tries to connect
+  postPatch = lib.optionalString isPy3k ''
+    substituteInPlace setup.py \
+      --replace "python-memcached" "python3-memcached"
+    '' + ''
+
+    rm tests/test_memcached.py
+  '';
+
+  # Disable external tests because they need to connect to a live database.
+  # Also disable a test in test_cache.py called "test_upgrade" because
+  # it currently fails on darwin.
+  # Please see issue https://github.com/bbangert/beaker/issues/166
+  checkPhase = ''
+    nosetests \
+      -e ".*test_ext_.*" \
+      -e "test_upgrade" \
+      -vv tests
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     description = "A Session and Caching library with WSGI Middleware";
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ garbas domenkozar ];
   };
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}