diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline-patches.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline-patches.nix
index 701d5fc94cec..b8019fb33502 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline-patches.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline-patches.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 # Automatically generated by `update-patch-set.sh'; do not edit.
 
 patch: [
-(patch "001" "1wbqnsxm4nd8rjckl8mdqcb82pphnsj2yxs4f2nf88kyhwzy544i")
-(patch "002" "070c3jz8fs5q17yy3l70wxklgnw6hp5ac9zhb0jdnrr9hf0wi6kl")
-(patch "003" "1gwssafy42hcijcynmlpqsasch7kqxbv2cqw0p7f9p2y6vp9ng2j")
-(patch "004" "1yzaycdfqjs5jdl0k7qg9cx47bdlq9xs0m6lfq42ys3yscmb1jzm")
 ]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline6.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline6.nix
index 60232a8b80bd..18118abedd98 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline6.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline6.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { fetchurl, stdenv, ncurses }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "readline-6.0";
+  name = "readline-6.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/readline/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1pn13j6f9376kwki69050x3zh62yb1w31l37rws5nwr5q02xk68i";
+    sha256 = "0sd97zqdh4fc0zzgzpskkczwa2fmb0s89qdyndb6vkbcq04gdjph";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ncurses];
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     (let
        patch = nr: sha256:
          fetchurl {
-           url = "mirror://gnu/readline/readline-6.0-patches/readline60-${nr}";
+           url = "mirror://gnu/readline/${name}-patches/readline61-${nr}";
            inherit sha256;
          };
      in