diff --git a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/default.nix
index 1ce947361df9..d8181142c09f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/default.nix
@@ -13,17 +13,15 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "ibus-typing-booster";
-  version = "2.7.5";
+  version = "2.19.10";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "mike-fabian";
     repo = "ibus-typing-booster";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "072mi8r10v78sfs81zxdwfabf87fp872c99c5iral1ywwa4iynpl";
+    sha256 = "Ie3cQ1YC+LB5I5LtKyJ0RO+dyjFbVsemW110t3gPmCM=";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./hunspell-dirs.patch ];
-
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkg-config wrapGAppsHook gobject-introspection ];
   buildInputs = [ python ibus gtk3 m17n_lib ];
 
@@ -34,8 +32,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/";
     license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    description = "A typing booster engine for the IBus platform";
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ];
+    description = "A completion input method for faster typing";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ncfavier ];
     isIbusEngine = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/hunspell-dirs.patch b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/hunspell-dirs.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b624b379a26..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/hunspell-dirs.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/engine/itb_util.py b/engine/itb_util.py
-index ded236a..633525a 100755
---- a/engine/itb_util.py
-+++ b/engine/itb_util.py
-@@ -1876,14 +1876,18 @@ def find_hunspell_dictionary(language):
-             If no dictionary can be found for the requested language,
-             the return value is ('', '').
-     '''
--    dirnames = [
--        '/usr/share/hunspell',
--        '/usr/share/myspell',
--        '/usr/share/myspell/dicts',
--        '/usr/local/share/hunspell', # On FreeBSD the dictionaries are here
--        '/usr/local/share/myspell',
--        '/usr/local/share/myspell/dicts',
--    ]
-+
-+    if "NIX_HUNSPELL_DIRS" in os.environ:
-+        dirnames = os.environ["NIX_HUNSPELL_DIRS"].split(":")
-+    else:       # fallback to the original behavior
-+        dirnames = [
-+            '/usr/share/hunspell',
-+            '/usr/share/myspell',
-+            '/usr/share/myspell/dicts',
-+            '/usr/local/share/hunspell', # On FreeBSD the dictionaries are here
-+            '/usr/local/share/myspell',
-+            '/usr/local/share/myspell/dicts',
-+        ]
-     dic_path = ''
-     aff_path = ''
-     for language in expand_languages([language]):
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/wrapper.nix
index e4394028658d..4b5180f0e15c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus-engines/ibus-typing-booster/wrapper.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 { typing-booster, symlinkJoin, hunspellDicts, lib, makeWrapper
-, langs ? [ "de-de" "en-us" "es-es" "fr-moderne" "it-it" "sv-se" "sv-fi" ]
+, langs ? [ "de-de" "en-gb-ise" "en-us" "es-es" "fr-moderne" "it-it" "sv-se" "sv-fi" ]
 }:
 
 let
 
-  hunspellDirs = with lib; makeSearchPath ":" (flatten (forEach langs (lang: [
-    "${hunspellDicts.${lang}}/share/hunspell"
-    "${hunspellDicts.${lang}}/share/myspell"
-    "${hunspellDicts.${lang}}/share/myspell/dicts"
-  ])));
+  hunspellDirs = lib.makeSearchPath "share/hunspell" (lib.attrVals langs hunspellDicts);
 
 in
 
@@ -20,7 +16,7 @@ symlinkJoin {
   postBuild = ''
     for i in bin/emoji-picker libexec/ibus-{setup,engine}-typing-booster; do
       wrapProgram "$out/$i" \
-        --prefix NIX_HUNSPELL_DIRS : ${lib.escapeShellArg hunspellDirs}
+        --prefix DICPATH : ${lib.escapeShellArg hunspellDirs}
     done
 
     sed -i -e "s,${typing-booster},$out," $out/share/ibus/component/typing-booster.xml