diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/language-servers/crystalline/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/language-servers/crystalline/default.nix
index ee347a86788ce..dee3a3f7de2af 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/language-servers/crystalline/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/language-servers/crystalline/default.nix
@@ -4,13 +4,21 @@
   fetchFromGitHub,
   llvmPackages,
   openssl,
+  shards,
   makeWrapper,
+  _experimental-update-script-combinators,
+  crystal2nix,
+  runCommand,
+  writeShellScript,
+  gitUpdater,
+  testers,
+  crystalline,
 }:
 
 let
-  version = "0.15.0";
+  version = "0.17.1";
 in
-crystal.buildCrystalPackage {
+crystal.buildCrystalPackage rec {
   pname = "crystalline";
   inherit version;
 
@@ -18,7 +26,7 @@ crystal.buildCrystalPackage {
     owner = "elbywan";
     repo = "crystalline";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-6ZAogEuOJH1QQ6NSJ+8KZUSFSgQAcvd4U9vWNAGix/M=";
+    hash = "sha256-SIfInDY6KhEwEPZckgobOrpKXBDDd0KhQt/IjdGBhWo=";
   };
 
   format = "crystal";
@@ -28,6 +36,7 @@ crystal.buildCrystalPackage {
     llvmPackages.llvm
     openssl
     makeWrapper
+    shards
   ];
 
   doCheck = false;
@@ -47,6 +56,35 @@ crystal.buildCrystalPackage {
     wrapProgram "$out/bin/crystalline" --prefix PATH : '${lib.makeBinPath [ llvmPackages.llvm.dev ]}'
   '';
 
+  passthru = {
+    updateScript = _experimental-update-script-combinators.sequence [
+      (gitUpdater { rev-prefix = "v"; })
+      (_experimental-update-script-combinators.copyAttrOutputToFile "crystalline.shardLock" "${builtins.toString ./.}/shard.lock")
+      {
+        command = [
+          (writeShellScript "update-lock" "cd $1; ${lib.getExe crystal2nix}")
+          ./.
+        ];
+        supportedFeatures = [ "silent" ];
+      }
+      {
+        command = [
+          "rm"
+          "${builtins.toString ./.}/shard.lock"
+        ];
+        supportedFeatures = [ "silent" ];
+      }
+    ];
+    shardLock = runCommand "shard.lock" { inherit src; } ''
+      cp $src/shard.lock $out
+    '';
+
+    # Since doInstallCheck causes another test error, versionCheckHook is avoided.
+    tests.version = testers.testVersion {
+      package = crystalline;
+    };
+  };
+
   meta = {
     description = "Language Server Protocol implementation for Crystal";
     mainProgram = "crystalline";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/language-servers/crystalline/shards.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/language-servers/crystalline/shards.nix
index 2e53527fd0b86..562ce68701015 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/language-servers/crystalline/shards.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/language-servers/crystalline/shards.nix
@@ -19,9 +19,4 @@
     rev = "e448ce83486f99ef016c311e10ec0cac805cded3";
     sha256 = "13yp7805xpd605jpfpb3srqb0psy25w7n6x9mpkcyvzhqmpnpfyq";
   };
-  version_from_shard = {
-    url = "https://github.com/hugopl/version_from_shard.git";
-    rev = "v1.2.5";
-    sha256 = "0xizj0q4rd541rwjbx04cjifc2gfx4l5v6q2y7gmd0ndjmkgb8ik";
-  };
 }