diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/default.nix
index eae446831849..0fc885033e64 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/default.nix
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "raft-canonical";
-  version = "0.11.2";
+  version = "0.16.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "canonical";
     repo = "raft";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "050dwy34jh8dihfwfm0r1by2i3sy9crapipp9idw32idm79y4izb";
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-qDLAEhknY+BB83OC6tfi7w/ZY/K492J5ZglLNUoBwbc=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook file pkg-config ];
@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  # Ignore broken test, likely not causing huge breakage
-  # (https://github.com/canonical/raft/issues/292)
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace test/integration/test_uv_tcp_connect.c --replace \
-      "TEST(tcp_connect, closeDuringHandshake, setUp, tearDownDeps, 0, NULL)" \
-      "TEST(tcp_connect, closeDuringHandshake, setUp, tearDownDeps, MUNIT_TEST_OPTION_TODO, NULL)"
-  '';
+  patches = [
+    # network tests either hang indefinitely, or fail outright
+    ./disable-net-tests.patch
+
+    # missing dir check is flaky
+    ./disable-missing-dir-test.patch
+  ];
 
   preConfigure = ''
     substituteInPlace configure --replace /usr/bin/ " "
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/disable-missing-dir-test.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/disable-missing-dir-test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ddfec9b22e14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/disable-missing-dir-test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+diff --git a/test/unit/test_uv_fs.c b/test/unit/test_uv_fs.c
+index 638c39c..c8758d2 100644
+--- a/test/unit/test_uv_fs.c
++++ b/test/unit/test_uv_fs.c
+@@ -40,18 +40,6 @@ TEST(UvFsCheckDir, exists, DirSetUp, DirTearDown, 0, NULL)
+     return MUNIT_OK;
+ }
+ 
+-/* If the directory doesn't exist, it an error is returned. */
+-TEST(UvFsCheckDir, doesNotExist, DirSetUp, DirTearDown, 0, NULL)
+-{
+-    const char *parent = data;
+-    char errmsg[RAFT_ERRMSG_BUF_SIZE];
+-    char dir[128];
+-    sprintf(errmsg, "%s/sub", parent);
+-    sprintf(errmsg, "directory '%s' does not exist", dir);
+-    CHECK_DIR_ERROR(dir, RAFT_NOTFOUND, errmsg);
+-    return MUNIT_OK;
+-}
+-
+ /* If the process can't access the directory, an error is returned. */
+ TEST(UvFsCheckDir, permissionDenied, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL)
+ {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/disable-net-tests.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/disable-net-tests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c8be29feafd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/disable-net-tests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
+index 2137932..93abdb6 100644
+--- a/Makefile.am
++++ b/Makefile.am
+@@ -198,11 +198,7 @@ test_integration_uv_SOURCES = \
+   test/integration/test_uv_bootstrap.c \
+   test/integration/test_uv_load.c \
+   test/integration/test_uv_recover.c \
+-  test/integration/test_uv_recv.c \
+-  test/integration/test_uv_send.c \
+   test/integration/test_uv_set_term.c \
+-  test/integration/test_uv_tcp_connect.c \
+-  test/integration/test_uv_tcp_listen.c \
+   test/integration/test_uv_snapshot_put.c \
+   test/integration/test_uv_truncate.c \
+   test/integration/test_uv_work.c