diff --git a/pkgs/applications/office/abiword/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/office/abiword/default.nix
index 0554713feb89..c064ea94d04e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/office/abiword/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/office/abiword/default.nix
@@ -5,29 +5,15 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "abiword";
-  version = "3.0.4";
+  version = "3.0.5";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/${version}/source/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1mx5l716n0z5788i19qmad30cck4v9ggr071cafw2nrf375rcc79";
+    hash = "sha256-ElckfplwUI1tFFbT4zDNGQnEtCsl4PChvDJSbW86IbQ=";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  patches = [
-    # Switch to using enchant2; note by the next update enchant2 should be
-    # default and this patch can be removed.
-    # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/38506
-    (fetchurl {
-      url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/d3ff951d3c7249927e7113b3de1653031db24596/abiword/trunk/enchant-2.1.patch";
-      sha256 = "444dc2aadea3c80310a509b690097541573f6d2652c573d04da66a0f385fcfb2";
-    })
-  ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace configure --replace 'enchant >=' 'enchant-2 >='
-  '';
-
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config wrapGAppsHook ];
 
   buildInputs = [