diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.30.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.30.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 830c07330524..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.30.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, buildPackages
-, fetchurl, zlib
-, buildPlatform, hostPlatform, targetPlatform
-, noSysDirs, gold ? true, bison ? null
-}:
-
-let
-  version = "2.30";
-  basename = "binutils-${version}";
-  inherit (stdenv.lib) optional optionals optionalString;
-  # The targetPrefix prepended to binary names to allow multiple binuntils on the
-  # PATH to both be usable.
-  targetPrefix = optionalString (targetPlatform != hostPlatform) "${targetPlatform.config}-";
-in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = targetPrefix + basename;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnu/binutils/${basename}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "028cklfqaab24glva1ks2aqa1zxa6w6xmc8q34zs1sb7h22dxspg";
-  };
-
-  patches = [
-    # Turn on --enable-new-dtags by default to make the linker set
-    # RUNPATH instead of RPATH on binaries.  This is important because
-    # RUNPATH can be overriden using LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime.
-    ./new-dtags.patch
-
-    # Since binutils 2.22, DT_NEEDED flags aren't copied for dynamic outputs.
-    # That requires upstream changes for things to work. So we can patch it to
-    # get the old behaviour by now.
-    ./dtneeded.patch
-
-    # Make binutils output deterministic by default.
-    ./deterministic.patch
-
-    # Always add PaX flags section to ELF files.
-    # This is needed, for instance, so that running "ldd" on a binary that is
-    # PaX-marked to disable mprotect doesn't fail with permission denied.
-    ./pt-pax-flags.patch
-
-    # Bfd looks in BINDIR/../lib for some plugins that don't
-    # exist. This is pointless (since users can't install plugins
-    # there) and causes a cycle between the lib and bin outputs, so
-    # get rid of it.
-    ./no-plugins.patch
-
-    # Help bfd choose between elf32-littlearm, elf32-littlearm-symbian, and
-    # elf32-littlearm-vxworks in favor of the first.
-    # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/30484#issuecomment-345472766
-    ./disambiguate-arm-targets.patch
-
-    # For some reason bfd ld doesn't search DT_RPATH when cross-compiling. It's
-    # not clear why this behavior was decided upon but it has the unfortunate
-    # consequence that the linker will fail to find transitive dependencies of
-    # shared objects when cross-compiling. Consequently, we are forced to
-    # override this behavior, forcing ld to search DT_RPATH even when
-    # cross-compiling.
-    ./always-search-rpath.patch
-  ];
-
-  outputs = [ "out" "info" "man" ];
-
-  depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ bison ];
-  buildInputs = [ zlib ];
-
-  inherit noSysDirs;
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    # Clear the default library search path.
-    if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
-        echo 'NATIVE_LIB_DIRS=' >> ld/configure.tgt
-    fi
-
-    # Use symlinks instead of hard links to save space ("strip" in the
-    # fixup phase strips each hard link separately).
-    for i in binutils/Makefile.in gas/Makefile.in ld/Makefile.in gold/Makefile.in; do
-        sed -i "$i" -e 's|ln |ln -s |'
-    done
-  '';
-
-  # As binutils takes part in the stdenv building, we don't want references
-  # to the bootstrap-tools libgcc (as uses to happen on arm/mips)
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = if hostPlatform.isDarwin
-    then "-Wno-string-plus-int -Wno-deprecated-declarations"
-    else "-static-libgcc";
-
-  # TODO(@Ericson2314): Always pass "--target" and always targetPrefix.
-  configurePlatforms =
-    # TODO(@Ericson2314): Figure out what's going wrong with Arm
-    if buildPlatform == hostPlatform && hostPlatform == targetPlatform && targetPlatform.isArm
-    then []
-    else [ "build" "host" ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional (targetPlatform != hostPlatform) "target";
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--enable-targets=all" "--enable-64-bit-bfd"
-    "--disable-install-libbfd"
-    "--disable-shared" "--enable-static"
-    "--with-system-zlib"
-
-    "--enable-deterministic-archives"
-    "--disable-werror"
-    "--enable-fix-loongson2f-nop"
-  ] ++ optionals gold [ "--enable-gold" "--enable-plugins" ];
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  passthru = {
-    inherit targetPrefix version;
-  };
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Tools for manipulating binaries (linker, assembler, etc.)";
-    longDescription = ''
-      The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools.  The main
-      ones are `ld' (the GNU linker) and `as' (the GNU assembler).
-      They also include the BFD (Binary File Descriptor) library,
-      `gprof', `nm', `strip', etc.
-    '';
-    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/;
-    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ericson2314 ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-
-    /* Give binutils a lower priority than gcc-wrapper to prevent a
-       collision due to the ld/as wrappers/symlinks in the latter. */
-    priority = 10;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
index 05d0d21a179b..830c07330524 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@
 }:
 
 let
-  # Note to whoever is upgrading this: 2.29 is broken.
-  # ('nix-build pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix -A test' segfaults on aarch64)
-  # Also glibc might need patching, see commit 733e20fee4a6700510f71fbe1a58ac23ea202f6a.
-  version = "2.28.1";
+  version = "2.30";
   basename = "binutils-${version}";
   inherit (stdenv.lib) optional optionals optionalString;
   # The targetPrefix prepended to binary names to allow multiple binuntils on the
@@ -21,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/binutils/${basename}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1sj234nd05cdgga1r36zalvvdkvpfbr12g5mir2n8i1dwsdrj939";
+    sha256 = "028cklfqaab24glva1ks2aqa1zxa6w6xmc8q34zs1sb7h22dxspg";
   };
 
   patches = [
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 31800d78bb09..f97d6051a3f0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7422,8 +7422,6 @@ with pkgs;
   binutils =
     if targetPlatform.isDarwin
     then darwin.binutils
-    else if targetPlatform.isRiscV
-    then binutils_2_30
     else binutils-raw;
 
   binutils-unwrapped = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/binutils {
@@ -7434,15 +7432,6 @@ with pkgs;
     libc = if targetPlatform != hostPlatform then libcCross else stdenv.cc.libc;
     bintools = binutils-unwrapped;
   };
-  binutils-unwrapped_2_30 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/binutils/2.30.nix {
-    # FHS sys dirs presumably only have stuff for the build platform
-    noSysDirs = (targetPlatform != buildPlatform) || noSysDirs;
-  };
-  binutils-raw_2_30 = wrapBintoolsWith {
-    libc = if targetPlatform != hostPlatform then libcCross else stdenv.cc.libc;
-    bintools = binutils-unwrapped_2_30;
-  };
-  binutils_2_30 = binutils-raw_2_30;
 
   binutils_nogold = lowPrio (binutils-raw.override {
     bintools = binutils-raw.bintools.override {