diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
index a5eafa0fdec..d670f8e9698 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ in
 let
 libxml = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libxml2";
-  version = "2.10.4";
+  version = "2.11.4";
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "doc" ]
     ++ lib.optional pythonSupport "py"
@@ -43,24 +43,9 @@ libxml = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnome/sources/libxml2/${lib.versions.majorMinor version}/libxml2-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "7QyRxYRQCPGTZznk7uIDVTHByUdCxlQfRO5m2IWUjUU=";
+    sha256 = "c34df4qz8TlynKE6JJT9F78w3bS3pCfPM2JSyrV/V/c=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # Upstream bugs:
-    #   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789714
-    #   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/64
-    # Patch from https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065270 ,
-    # but only the UTF-8 part.
-    # Can also be mitigated by fixing malformed XML inputs, such as in
-    # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric/merge_requests/3 .
-    # Other discussion:
-    #   https://github.com/itstool/itstool/issues/22
-    #   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/63174
-    #   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72342
-    ./utf8-xmlErrorFuncHandler.patch
-  ];
-
   strictDeps = true;
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/utf8-xmlErrorFuncHandler.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/utf8-xmlErrorFuncHandler.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f4c99b0934..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/utf8-xmlErrorFuncHandler.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-Index: libxml2-2.9.5/python/libxml.c
-===================================================================
---- libxml2-2.9.5.orig/python/libxml.c
-+++ libxml2-2.9.5/python/libxml.c
-@@ -1620,6 +1620,7 @@ libxml_xmlErrorFuncHandler(ATTRIBUTE_UNU
-     PyObject *message;
-     PyObject *result;
-     char str[1000];
-+    unsigned char *ptr = (unsigned char *)str;
- 
- #ifdef DEBUG_ERROR
-     printf("libxml_xmlErrorFuncHandler(%p, %s, ...) called\n", ctx, msg);
-@@ -1636,10 +1637,16 @@ libxml_xmlErrorFuncHandler(ATTRIBUTE_UNU
- 	    str[999] = 0;
-         va_end(ap);
- 
-+#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
-+        /* Ensure the error string doesn't start at UTF8 continuation. */
-+        while (*ptr && (*ptr & 0xc0) == 0x80)
-+            ptr++;
-+#endif
-+
-         list = PyTuple_New(2);
-         PyTuple_SetItem(list, 0, libxml_xmlPythonErrorFuncCtxt);
-         Py_XINCREF(libxml_xmlPythonErrorFuncCtxt);
--        message = libxml_charPtrConstWrap(str);
-+        message = libxml_charPtrConstWrap(ptr);
-         PyTuple_SetItem(list, 1, message);
-         result = PyEval_CallObject(libxml_xmlPythonErrorFuncHandler, list);
-         Py_XDECREF(list);