diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/0002-autoconf-version.patch b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/0002-autoconf-version.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ebb1751d6b..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/0002-autoconf-version.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/dist/autoconf-version b/dist/autoconf-version
-index 264f2ce..5e1b8b0 100644
---- a/dist/autoconf-version
-+++ b/dist/autoconf-version
-@@ -1 +1 @@
--2.68
-+2.69
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/default.nix
index 524bba52739..8f354d4bb46 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 , file, openssl, perl, perlPackages, unzip, nettools, ncurses }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "net-snmp-5.8";
+  pname = "net-snmp";
+  version = "5.9";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/net-snmp/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1pvajzj9gmj56dmwix0ywmkmy2pglh6nny646hkm7ghfhh03bz5j";
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/net-snmp/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0wb0vyafpspw3mcifkjjmf17r1r80kjvslycscb8nvaxz1k3lc04";
   };
 
   patches =
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   in [
     (fetchAlpinePatch "fix-includes.patch" "0zpkbb6k366qpq4dax5wknwprhwnhighcp402mlm7950d39zfa3m")
     (fetchAlpinePatch "netsnmp-swinst-crash.patch" "0gh164wy6zfiwiszh58fsvr25k0ns14r3099664qykgpmickkqid")
-    ./0002-autoconf-version.patch
   ];
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "out" "dev" "lib" ];