diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/default.nix
index 4c153fa6ff5a..dda0755a7383 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, openssl, curl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "esniper-2.26.0";
+  name = "esniper-2.27.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/esniper/esniper-2-26-0.tgz";
-    sha256 = "5fd9a0f4b27b98deca303cd3d16c1ed060e05a165a40b2f4a9f8546db5e3877d";
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/esniper/esniper-2-27-0.tgz";
+    sha256 = "0ca9946395be8958d3eb28c9abc4a1a4d4c9134e4b6b3c3816f4631e3be25c02";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [openssl curl];
 
-  patches = [ ./fix-build-with-latest-curl.patch ];
-
   postInstall = ''
     sed -e  "2i export PATH=\"$out/bin:\$PATH\"" <"frontends/snipe" >"$out/bin/snipe"
     chmod 555 "$out/bin/snipe"
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/fix-build-with-latest-curl.patch b/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/fix-build-with-latest-curl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 81005fd3ebe5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/esniper/fix-build-with-latest-curl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- esniper-2-26-0/http.c	2011-08-09 21:05:59.000000000 +0200
-+++ esniper/http.c	2011-08-10 00:24:43.000000000 +0200
-@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
- #include "esniper.h"
- #include <ctype.h>
- #include <curl/curl.h>
--#include <curl/types.h>
- #include <curl/easy.h>
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <string.h>