diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
index b742e34..9e0c457 100644
--- a/flake.lock
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -36,24 +36,24 @@
     "lix": {
       "flake": false,
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1717036385,
-        "narHash": "sha256-dJprPH+cA6Ce7j3/ffPiJRKLrLFngko2nEtOEt+LU5I=",
-        "rev": "562ff516ab27b8e98490646dd30ac96e7e2c36bb",
+        "lastModified": 1718419213,
+        "narHash": "sha256-WY7BGnu5PnbK4O8cKKv9kvxwzZIGbIQUQLGPHFXitI0=",
+        "rev": "253546d5fbf8a5aa60ac8164c1b4f5794dc4e9d1",
         "type": "tarball",
-        "url": "https://git.lix.systems/api/v1/repos/lix-project/lix/archive/562ff516ab27b8e98490646dd30ac96e7e2c36bb.tar.gz"
+        "url": "https://git.lix.systems/api/v1/repos/lix-project/lix/archive/253546d5fbf8a5aa60ac8164c1b4f5794dc4e9d1.tar.gz"
       },
       "original": {
         "type": "tarball",
-        "url": "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/archive/main.tar.gz"
+        "url": "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/archive/2.90.0-rc1.tar.gz"
       }
     },
     "nixpkgs": {
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1716769173,
-        "narHash": "sha256-7EXDb5WBw+d004Agt+JHC/Oyh/KTUglOaQ4MNjBbo5w=",
+        "lastModified": 1718530797,
+        "narHash": "sha256-pup6cYwtgvzDpvpSCFh1TEUjw2zkNpk8iolbKnyFmmU=",
         "owner": "nixos",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "9ca3f649614213b2aaf5f1e16ec06952fe4c2632",
+        "rev": "b60ebf54c15553b393d144357375ea956f89e9a9",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 6a83ec1..b6f0a73 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
   inputs.lix = {
-    url = "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/archive/main.tar.gz";
+    url = "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/archive/2.90.0-rc1.tar.gz";
     flake = false;
   };
   inputs.flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
diff --git a/overlay.nix b/overlay.nix
index 2a7b6b0..b7c0244 100644
--- a/overlay.nix
+++ b/overlay.nix
@@ -1,39 +1,16 @@
 { lix, versionSuffix ? "" }:
 final: prev:
 let
-  boehmgc-patched = ((final.boehmgc.override {
-    enableLargeConfig = true;
-  }).overrideAttrs (o: {
-    # cherrypick: boehmgc: disable tests on aarch64-linux
-    # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/309418
-    doCheck = !((final.stdenv.isDarwin && final.stdenv.isx86_64) || (final.stdenv.isLinux && final.stdenv.isAarch64));
-
-    patches = (o.patches or [ ]) ++ [
-      # for clown reasons this version is newer than the one in lix, we should
-      # fix this and update our nixpkgs pin
-      (prev.path + "/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/patches/boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.patch")
-    ] ++ final.lib.optionals (final.lib.versionOlder o.version "8.2.6") [
-      # https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/pull/586
-      (builtins.path { path = lix + "/boehmgc-traceable_allocator-public.diff"; name = "boehmgc-traceable_allocator-public.patch"; })
-    ];
-  })
-  );
-
-  lixFunctionArgs = builtins.functionArgs (import (lix + "/package.nix"));
-  # fix up build-release-notes being required in older versions of Lix.
-  lixPackageBuildReleaseNotes =
-      if lixFunctionArgs.build-release-notes or true
-      then { }
-      else { build-release-notes = null; };
-
   # This is kind of scary to not override the nix version to pretend to be
   # 2.18 since nixpkgs can introduce new breakage in its Nix unstable CLI
   # usage.
   # https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/6afb255d976f85f3359e4929abd6f5149c323a02/nixos/modules/config/nix.nix#L121
   lixPkg = final.callPackage (lix + "/package.nix") ({
-    versionSuffix = "-lix${versionSuffix}";
-    boehmgc-nix = boehmgc-patched;
-  } // lixPackageBuildReleaseNotes);
+    # versionSuffix = "-lix${versionSuffix}";
+    # FIXME: do this more sensibly for future releases
+    # https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/406
+    officialRelease = true;
+  });
 
   # These packages depend on Nix features that Lix does not support
   overridelist_2_18 = [
diff --git a/pins.json b/pins.json
index 2dec285..ddb50af 100644
--- a/pins.json
+++ b/pins.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{"nix-eval-jobs": {"kind": "tarball", "rev": "d05f8e86a91aa8b212657ffeec3f3dc38f93d354", "nar_hash": "sha256-fVlYlyQUfrmQNM/2w1+LiV2AMGdU8g3y/ZauRTThKio=", "locked_url": "https://git.lix.systems/api/v1/repos/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/d05f8e86a91aa8b212657ffeec3f3dc38f93d354.tar.gz?rev=d05f8e86a91aa8b212657ffeec3f3dc38f93d354", "url": "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/main.tar.gz"}}
\ No newline at end of file
+{"nix-eval-jobs": {"kind": "tarball", "rev": "9c23772cf25e0d891bef70b7bcb7df36239672a5", "nar_hash": "sha256-oT273pDmYzzI7ACAFUOcsxtT6y34V5KF7VBSqTza7j8=", "locked_url": "https://git.lix.systems/api/v1/repos/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/9c23772cf25e0d891bef70b7bcb7df36239672a5.tar.gz?rev=9c23772cf25e0d891bef70b7bcb7df36239672a5", "url": "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/release-2.90.tar.gz"}}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/update_pins.py b/update_pins.py
index e037fc5..356fe1a 100755
--- a/update_pins.py
+++ b/update_pins.py
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ def lock_git(url, branch) -> GitPinSerialized:
 
 PINS = {
     'nix-eval-jobs':
-    TarballPinSpec('https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/main.tar.gz')
+    TarballPinSpec('https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/release-2.90.tar.gz')
 }