diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/fl/flye/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/fl/flye/package.nix
index 1f7bde7a2aa5..3bc42e8bbb9d 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/fl/flye/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/fl/flye/package.nix
@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@
 
 python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "flye";
-  version = "2.9.5";
+  version = "2.9.6";
   pyproject = true;
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "fenderglass";
     repo = "flye";
     tag = version;
-    hash = "sha256-448PTdGueQVHFIDS5zMy+XKZCtEb0SqP8bspPLHMJn0=";
+    hash = "sha256-ZdrAxPKY3+HJ388tGCdpDcvW70mJ5wd4uOUkuufyqK8=";
   };
 
   patches = [
@@ -30,12 +30,6 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
       url = "https://github.com/mikolmogorov/Flye/commit/e4dcc3fdf0fa1430a974fcd7da31b03ea642df9b.patch";
       hash = "sha256-Ny2daPt8eYOKnwZ6bdBoCcFWhe9eiIHF4vJU/occwU0=";
     })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      # https://github.com/mikolmogorov/Flye/pull/711
-      name = "remove-distutils.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/mikolmogorov/Flye/commit/fb34f1ccfdf569d186a4ce822ee18eced736636b.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-52bnZ8XyP0HsY2OpNYMU3xJgotNVdQc/O2w3XIReUdQ=";
-    })
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''