diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/curl/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/curl/default.nix
index 0f44c67e01cd..eb93c9ef4f66 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/curl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/curl/default.nix
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ assert sslSupport -> openssl != null;
 assert scpSupport -> libssh2 != null;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "curl-7.29.0";
+  name = "curl-7.30.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://curl.haxx.se/download/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0bw3sclhjqb2zwgcp6njjpaca62rwlj2mrw2r9wic47sqsxfhy4x";
+    sha256 = "04dgm9aqvplsx43n8xin5rkr8mwmc6mdd1gcp80jda5yhw1l273b";
   };
 
   # Zlib and OpenSSL must be propagated because `libcurl.la' contains
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     inherit sslSupport openssl;
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./fix-curl-multi-cleanup.patch ];
-
   preConfigure = ''
     sed -e 's|/usr/bin|/no-such-path|g' -i.bak configure
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/curl/fix-curl-multi-cleanup.patch b/pkgs/tools/networking/curl/fix-curl-multi-cleanup.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f6e42040cb8e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/curl/fix-curl-multi-cleanup.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-commit 249c981407b8c52edf2b0833a78cd3d3d8bd2823
-Author: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
-Date:   Sun Feb 10 13:27:10 2013 -0500
-
-    curl_multi_cleanup: Don't try to cleanup the closure_handle if it is NULL.
-    
-    Without this, curl_multi_cleanup(curl_multi_init()) segfaults.
-    
-    Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
-
-diff --git a/lib/multi.c b/lib/multi.c
-index fa0afb9..5b9d0bb 100644
---- a/lib/multi.c
-+++ b/lib/multi.c
-@@ -1773,11 +1773,13 @@ CURLMcode curl_multi_cleanup(CURLM *multi_handle)
-     /* Close all the connections in the connection cache */
-     close_all_connections(multi);
- 
--    multi->closure_handle->dns.hostcache = multi->hostcache;
--    Curl_hostcache_clean(multi->closure_handle);
-+    if (multi->closure_handle) {
-+        multi->closure_handle->dns.hostcache = multi->hostcache;
-+        Curl_hostcache_clean(multi->closure_handle);
- 
--    Curl_close(multi->closure_handle);
--    multi->closure_handle = NULL;
-+        Curl_close(multi->closure_handle);
-+        multi->closure_handle = NULL;
-+    }
- 
-     Curl_hash_destroy(multi->sockhash);
-     multi->sockhash = NULL;