diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/default.nix
index 49e4711550da..bee86cb0ed39 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/default.nix
@@ -8,34 +8,17 @@
 # plugin derivations in the Nix store and nowhere else.
 with builtins; buildDotnetPackage rec {
   baseName = "keepass";
-  version = "2.37";
+  version = "2.38";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/keepass/KeePass-${version}-Source.zip";
-    sha256 = "1wfbpfjng1blzkbjnxsdnny544297bm9869ianbr6l0hrvcgv3qx";
+    sha256 = "0m33gfpvv01xc28k4rrc8llbyk6qanm9rsqcnv8ydms0cr78dbbk";
   };
 
   sourceRoot = ".";
 
   buildInputs = [ unzip makeWrapper icoutils ];
 
-  pluginLoadPathsPatch =
-    let outputLc = toString (add 7 (length plugins));
-        patchTemplate = readFile ./keepass-plugins.patch;
-        loadTemplate  = readFile ./keepass-plugins-load.patch;
-        loads =
-          lib.concatStrings
-            (map
-              (p: replaceStrings ["$PATH$"] [ (unsafeDiscardStringContext (toString p)) ] loadTemplate)
-              plugins);
-    in replaceStrings ["$OUTPUT_LC$" "$DO_LOADS$"] [outputLc loads] patchTemplate;
-
-  passAsFile = [ "pluginLoadPathsPatch" ];
-  postPatch = ''
-    sed -i 's/\r*$//' KeePass/Forms/MainForm.cs
-    patch -p1 <$pluginLoadPathsPatchPath
-  '';
-
   preConfigure = ''
     rm -rvf Build/*
     find . -name "*.sln" -print -exec sed -i 's/Format Version 10.00/Format Version 11.00/g' {} \;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/keepass-plugins-load.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/keepass-plugins-load.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b7bea38e4c81..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/keepass-plugins-load.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-+				m_pluginManager.LoadAllPlugins("$PATH$/lib/dotnet/keepass", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly, new string[] {});
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/keepass-plugins.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/keepass-plugins.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1793f04a1708..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/keepass/keepass-plugins.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
---- old/KeePass/Forms/MainForm.cs
-+++ new/KeePass/Forms/MainForm.cs
-@@ -386,42 +386,$OUTPUT_LC$ @@ namespace KeePass.Forms
- 			m_pluginManager.UnloadAllPlugins();
- 			if(AppPolicy.Current.Plugins)
- 			{
--				string[] vExclNames = new string[] {
--					AppDefs.FileNames.Program, AppDefs.FileNames.XmlSerializers,
--					AppDefs.FileNames.NativeLib32, AppDefs.FileNames.NativeLib64,
--					AppDefs.FileNames.ShInstUtil
--				};
--
--				string strPlgRoot = UrlUtil.GetFileDirectory(
--					WinUtil.GetExecutable(), false, true);
--				m_pluginManager.LoadAllPlugins(strPlgRoot, SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly,
--					vExclNames);
--
--				if(!NativeLib.IsUnix())
--				{
--					string strPlgSub = UrlUtil.EnsureTerminatingSeparator(strPlgRoot,
--						false) + AppDefs.PluginsDir;
--					m_pluginManager.LoadAllPlugins(strPlgSub, SearchOption.AllDirectories,
--						vExclNames);
--				}
--				else // Unix
--				{
--					try
--					{
--						DirectoryInfo diPlgRoot = new DirectoryInfo(strPlgRoot);
--						foreach(DirectoryInfo diSub in diPlgRoot.GetDirectories())
--						{
--							if(diSub == null) { Debug.Assert(false); continue; }
--
--							if(string.Equals(diSub.Name, AppDefs.PluginsDir,
--								StrUtil.CaseIgnoreCmp))
--								m_pluginManager.LoadAllPlugins(diSub.FullName,
--									SearchOption.AllDirectories, vExclNames);
--						}
--					}
--					catch(Exception) { Debug.Assert(false); }
--				}
--			}
-$DO_LOADS$+			}
- 
- 			// Delete old files *after* loading plugins (when timestamps
- 			// of loaded plugins have been updated already)