diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyslurm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyslurm/default.nix
index 3a563e5d183d..fc33a82945e2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyslurm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyslurm/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 { lib, fetchFromGitHub, buildPythonPackage, cython, slurm }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  name = "pyslurm";
+  name = "pyslurm-${version}";
+  version = "20171102";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     repo = "pyslurm";
     owner = "PySlurm";
-    rev = "69e4f4fd66003b98ddb7da25613fe641d4ae160d";
-    sha256 = "051kafkndbniklxyf0drb360aiblnqcf9rqjbvmqh66zrfya1m28";
+    rev = "a2acbc820da419e308c5817998d2abe78a7b75e6";
+    sha256 = "1wmlx5fh1xzjyksvmq7i083hmyvs7id61ysk2d9hbmf8rza498as";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./pyslurm-dlfcn.patch ];
-
   buildInputs = [ cython slurm ];
   setupPyBuildFlags = [ "--slurm-lib=${slurm}/lib" "--slurm-inc=${slurm.dev}/include" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyslurm/pyslurm-dlfcn.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyslurm/pyslurm-dlfcn.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b3798a30706..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyslurm/pyslurm-dlfcn.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/pyslurm/__init__.py b/pyslurm/__init__.py
-index 81643e1..e8b6836 100644
---- a/pyslurm/__init__.py
-+++ b/pyslurm/__init__.py
-@@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ import sys
- old_dlopen_flags = ''
- if hasattr(sys, "setdlopenflags"):
-     old_dlopen_flags = sys.getdlopenflags()
--    import DLFCN
--    sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags | DLFCN.RTLD_GLOBAL)
-+    if sys.version_info >= (3,6):
-+        from os import RTLD_GLOBAL
-+    else:
-+        from DLFCN import RTLD_GLOBAL
-+    sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags | RTLD_GLOBAL)
- 
- from .pyslurm import *
-