diff --git a/app-utils/git-branchless/autobuild/defines b/app-utils/git-branchless/autobuild/defines
index f96ed3ec158d..66a2e8a5af47 100644
--- a/app-utils/git-branchless/autobuild/defines
+++ b/app-utils/git-branchless/autobuild/defines
@@ -6,3 +6,16 @@ BUILDDEP="rustc llvm"
 
 USECLANG=1
 ABSPLITDBG=0
+
+# FIXME: Too many dependencies on old versions of nix...
+# ... which has no LoongArch support until 0.27.0
+# https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/2045
+#
+# FIXME: on mips64el-like architectures, both CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS contain -fPIC, but...
+# error: linking with `clang` failed: exit status: 1
+#   |
+#   = note: ld.lld: error: relocation R_MIPS_64 cannot be used against symbol 'DW.ref.rust_eh_personality'; recompile with -fPIC
+#           >>> defined in /usr/lib64/rustlib/mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/lib/libstd-6dcaeb4e3195ef4c.rlib(std-6dcaeb4e3195ef4c.std.fc0db18c60d19c82-cgu.0.rcgu.o)
+#           >>> referenced by std.fc0db18c60d19c82-cgu.0
+#           >>>               std-6dcaeb4e3195ef4c.std.fc0db18c60d19c82-cgu.0.rcgu.o:(.eh_frame+0x37B3) in archive /usr/lib64/rustlib/mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/lib/libstd-6dcaeb4e3195ef4c.rlib
+FAIL_ARCH="(loongarch64|loongson3|mips64r6el)"
diff --git a/app-utils/git-branchless/spec b/app-utils/git-branchless/spec
index a5275edc6f99..41364ad7f446 100644
--- a/app-utils/git-branchless/spec
+++ b/app-utils/git-branchless/spec
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VER=0.7.1
+VER=0.9.0
 SRCS="tbl::https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/archive/refs/tags/v$VER.tar.gz"
-CHKSUMS="sha256::90a69356573acd0984607749cc18706c5a2410e1d59b553df5271ad3e4147dbf"
+CHKSUMS="sha256::fa64dc92ec522520a6407ff61241fc1819a3093337b4e3d0f80248ae76938d43"
 CHKUPDATE="anitya::id=243307"