diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/default.nix
index 88b99889f1ba..98e8f1038bea 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/default.nix
@@ -9,24 +9,16 @@
 
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
   pname = "cargo-about";
-  version = "0.5.2";
+  version = "0.5.3";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "EmbarkStudios";
     repo = "cargo-about";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-8476jJK1oiXVX9G09NSL+xvXZdZ+h7grCHC6R0XXewo=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-THyVFvotR7ttGB3YyK0XPG5m4mbgHJqu1gnZFmyFDOA=";
   };
 
-  cargoPatches = [
-    # update mimalloc to fix build with older apple sdks
-    ./update-mimalloc.patch
-
-    # enable pkg-config feature of zstd
-    ./zstd-pkg-config.patch
-  ];
-
-  cargoSha256 = "sha256-EFpkBWQSWYyMrUa9Dh+n9kDNmXL/2yuEmFN3DcPeE7U=";
+  cargoSha256 = "sha256-o9NMhkKtdlTqmOO5mVWxcuEu4U7GkTO0B3XoMrBwiwI=";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
 
@@ -34,6 +26,8 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
     darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security
   ];
 
+  ZSTD_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Cargo plugin to generate list of all licenses for a crate";
     homepage = "https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/cargo-about";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/update-mimalloc.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/update-mimalloc.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d467fb811c2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/update-mimalloc.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- a/Cargo.lock
-+++ b/Cargo.lock
-@@ -829,9 +829,9 @@ checksum = "efaa7b300f3b5fe8eb6bf21ce3895e1751d9665086af2d64b42f19701015ff4f"
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "libmimalloc-sys"
--version = "0.1.24"
-+version = "0.1.26"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "7705fc40f6ed493f73584abbb324e74f96b358ff60dfe5659a0f8fc12c590a69"
-+checksum = "8fc093ab289b0bfda3aa1bdfab9c9542be29c7ef385cfcbe77f8c9813588eb48"
- dependencies = [
-  "cc",
- ]
-@@ -884,9 +884,9 @@ dependencies = [
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "mimalloc"
--version = "0.1.28"
-+version = "0.1.30"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "b0dfa131390c2f6bdb3242f65ff271fcdaca5ff7b6c08f28398be7f2280e3926"
-+checksum = "76ce6a4b40d3bff9eb3ce9881ca0737a85072f9f975886082640cd46a75cdb35"
- dependencies = [
-  "libmimalloc-sys",
- ]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/zstd-pkg-config.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/zstd-pkg-config.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ea8b67085fd2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/rust/cargo-about/zstd-pkg-config.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
---- a/Cargo.lock
-+++ b/Cargo.lock
-@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ dependencies = [
-  "toml_edit",
-  "twox-hash",
-  "url",
-+ "zstd",
- ]
- 
- [[package]]
-@@ -1093,6 +1094,12 @@ version = "0.1.0"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
- checksum = "8b870d8c151b6f2fb93e84a13146138f05d02ed11c7e7c54f8826aaaf7c9f184"
- 
-+[[package]]
-+name = "pkg-config"
-+version = "0.3.26"
-+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-+checksum = "6ac9a59f73473f1b8d852421e59e64809f025994837ef743615c6d0c5b305160"
-+
- [[package]]
- name = "ppv-lite86"
- version = "0.2.16"
-@@ -2045,4 +2052,5 @@ checksum = "2141bed8922b427761470e6bbfeff255da94fa20b0bbeab0d9297fcaf71e3aa7"
- dependencies = [
-  "cc",
-  "libc",
-+ "pkg-config",
- ]
---- a/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/Cargo.toml
-@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ toml_edit = "0.15"
- twox-hash = "1.6"
- # Url parsing
- url = "2.2"
-+# Use pkg-config feature of zstd
-+zstd = { version = "*", features = ["pkg-config"] }
- 
- [dev-dependencies]
- # Filesystems - Filesystem fixtures and assertions for testing