diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/icewm/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/icewm/default.nix
index 3b1c3b4ad37a..f3d88c55c589 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/icewm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/icewm/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 , fontconfig, xlibs, automake, pkgconfig, gdk_pixbuf }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "icewm-1.3.7";
+  name = "icewm-1.3.8";
 
   buildInputs =
     [ gettext libjpeg libtiff libungif libpng
@@ -13,11 +13,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/icewm/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0yw813d8amrl0n1fvdiyznxah92wcylj9kj1qhjc6h73d827h6na";
+    sha256 = "066d1mw0vm9ygxnyxksfi6k4vzclvnlkvj04pj3kbcmv1fg8sn0p";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./deprecated.patch ];
-
   NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lfontconfig";
 
   # The fuloong2f is not supported by 1.3.6 still
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/icewm/deprecated.patch b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/icewm/deprecated.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d22dfe719bd..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/icewm/deprecated.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-wm/icewm/files/icewm-1.2.37-libX11-1.5.0-deprecated.patch?revision=1.1
-
-Description: Don't use "deprecated" as identifier, will FTBFS if another
- library defines functions as deprecated.
-Author: Andreas Moog <amoog@ubuntu.com>
-Bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3494034&group_id=31&atid=100031
-Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/935179
-Forwarded: Yes
-
---- icewm-1.3.7.orig/src/base.h
-+++ icewm-1.3.7/src/base.h
-@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
- #define __BASE_H
- 
- #if ( __GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 0 ) || __GNUC__ > 3
--#define deprecated __attribute__((deprecated))
-+#define ICEWM_deprecated __attribute__((deprecated))
- #else
--#define deprecated
-+#define ICEWM_deprecated
- #endif
- 
- /*** Atomar Data Types ********************************************************/