diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare2/default.nix
index 1622c6168606..cdade7c273cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare2/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 { lib
+, fetchpatch
 , stdenv
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , buildPackages
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@
 , python3
 , ruby
 , lua
+, capstone
 , useX11 ? false
 , rubyBindings ? false
 , pythonBindings ? false
@@ -30,13 +32,11 @@ let
 
   #<generated>
   # DO NOT EDIT! Automatically generated by ./update.py
-  gittap = "5.1.1";
-  gittip = "a86f8077fc148abd6443384362a3717cd4310e64";
-  rev = "5.1.1";
-  version = "5.1.1";
-  sha256 = "0hv9x31iabasj12g8f04incr1rbcdkxi3xnqn3ggp8gl4h6pf2f3";
-  cs_ver = "4.0.2";
-  cs_sha256 = "0y5g74yjyliciawpn16zhdwya7bd3d7b1cccpcccc2wg8vni1k2w";
+  gittap = "5.2.0";
+  gittip = "cf3db945083fb4dab951874e5ec1283128deab11";
+  rev = "5.2.0";
+  version = "5.2.0";
+  sha256 = "08azxfk6mw2vr0x4zbz0612rk7pj4mfz8shrzc9ima77wb52b8sm";
   #</generated>
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
@@ -49,22 +49,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     inherit rev sha256;
   };
 
-  postPatch =
-    let
-      capstone = fetchFromGitHub {
-        owner = "aquynh";
-        repo = "capstone";
-        # version from $sourceRoot/shlr/Makefile
-        rev = cs_ver;
-        sha256 = cs_sha256;
-      };
-    in
-    ''
-      mkdir -p build/shlr
-      cp -r ${capstone} capstone-${cs_ver}
-      chmod -R +w capstone-${cs_ver}
-      tar -czvf shlr/capstone-${cs_ver}.tar.gz capstone-${cs_ver}
-    '';
+  patches = [
+    # fix build against openssl, included in next release
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/e5e7469b6450c374e0884d35d44824e1a4eb46b4.patch";
+      sha256 = "sha256-xTmMHvUdW7d2QG7d4hlvMgEcegND7pGU745TWGqzY44=";
+    })
+  ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     install -D -m755 $src/binr/r2pm/r2pm $out/bin/r2pm
@@ -80,6 +71,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     "--with-sysmagic"
     "--with-syszip"
     "--with-sysxxhash"
+    "--with-syscapstone"
     "--with-openssl"
   ];
 
@@ -87,8 +79,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ file readline libusb-compat-0_1 libewf perl zlib openssl libuv ]
-    ++ optional useX11 [ gtkdialog vte gtk2 ]
+  buildInputs = [
+    capstone
+    file
+    readline
+    libusb-compat-0_1
+    libewf
+    perl
+    zlib
+    openssl
+    libuv
+  ] ++ optional useX11 [ gtkdialog vte gtk2 ]
     ++ optional rubyBindings [ ruby ]
     ++ optional pythonBindings [ python3 ]
     ++ optional luaBindings [ lua ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare2/update.py b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare2/update.py
index a860d226df27..e1dfc071cd38 100755
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare2/update.py
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare2/update.py
@@ -55,24 +55,12 @@ def git(dirname: str, *args: str) -> str:
 def get_repo_info(dirname: str, rev: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
     sha256 = prefetch_github("radare", "radare2", rev)
 
-    cs_ver = None
-    with open(Path(dirname).joinpath("shlr", "Makefile")) as makefile:
-        for l in makefile:
-            match = re.match("CS_VER=(\S+)", l)
-            if match:
-                cs_ver = match.group(1)
-    assert cs_ver is not None
-
-    cs_sha256 = prefetch_github("aquynh", "capstone", cs_ver)
-
     return dict(
         rev=rev,
         sha256=sha256,
         version_commit=git(dirname, "rev-list", "--all", "--count"),
         gittap=git(dirname, "describe", "--tags", "--match", "[0-9]*"),
         gittip=git(dirname, "rev-parse", "HEAD"),
-        cs_ver=cs_ver,
-        cs_sha256=cs_sha256,
     )
 
 
@@ -107,8 +95,6 @@ def main() -> None:
   rev = "{info["rev"]}";
   version = "{version}";
   sha256 = "{info["sha256"]}";
-  cs_ver = "{info["cs_ver"]}";
-  cs_sha256 = "{info["cs_sha256"]}";
   #</generated>"""
                     )
                 elif "#</generated>" in l: