diff --git a/lang/python/pillow/Makefile b/lang/python/pillow/Makefile
index c974723a97..c6b1faf0ee 100644
--- a/lang/python/pillow/Makefile
+++ b/lang/python/pillow/Makefile
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=pillow
-PKG_VERSION:=10.0.0
+PKG_VERSION:=10.1.0
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PYPI_NAME:=Pillow
-PKG_HASH:=9c82b5b3e043c7af0d95792d0d20ccf68f61a1fec6b3530e718b688422727396
+PKG_HASH:=e6bf8de6c36ed96c86ea3b6e1d5273c53f46ef518a062464cd7ef5dd2cf92e38
 
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=python-setuptools-scm/host
 
diff --git a/lang/python/pillow/patches/001-remove-setuptools-version-limit.patch b/lang/python/pillow/patches/001-remove-setuptools-version-limit.patch
index 3dc07d9926..e5ac168cbf 100644
--- a/lang/python/pillow/patches/001-remove-setuptools-version-limit.patch
+++ b/lang/python/pillow/patches/001-remove-setuptools-version-limit.patch
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
  requires = [
 -  "setuptools>=67.8",
 +  "setuptools",
-   "wheel",
  ]
  backend-path = [
+   "_custom_build",
diff --git a/lang/python/pillow/test.sh b/lang/python/pillow/test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9bad292415
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/python/pillow/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+[ "$1" = "python3-pillow" ] || exit 0
+
+python3 - << EOF
+import sys
+from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
+
+if (Image.__version__ != "$2"):
+    print("Wrong version: " + Image.__version__)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
+img = Image.new('RGB', (100, 30), color = (73, 109, 137))
+d = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+d.text((10,10), "Hello World", fill=(255,255,0))
+
+# Getting here means we did not get exceptions
+sys.exit(0)
+EOF