diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/jq/darwin-strptime-test.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/jq/darwin-strptime-test.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ea83fc164a3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/jq/darwin-strptime-test.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/tests/jq.test b/tests/jq.test
-index 4a4018b..f5aa7d5 100644
---- a/src/tests/jq.test
-+++ b/src/tests/jq.test
-@@ -1144,9 +1144,9 @@ bsearch(4)
- [1,2,3]
- -4
- 
--[strptime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")|(.,mktime)]
-+[strptime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")|mktime]
- "2015-03-05T23:51:47Z"
--[[2015,2,5,23,51,47,4,63],1425599507]
-+[1425599507]
- 
- strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
- [2015,2,5,23,51,47,4,63]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/jq/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/jq/default.nix
index 712ec64bd416..b7b2b5066b9f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/jq/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/jq/default.nix
@@ -2,33 +2,17 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "jq-${version}";
-  version="1.5";
+  version="1.6";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url="https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-${version}/jq-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256="0g29kyz4ykasdcrb0zmbrp2jqs9kv1wz9swx849i2d1ncknbzln4";
+    sha256="1a76f46a652i2g333kfvrl6mp2w7whf6h1yly519izg4y967h9cn";
   };
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "doc" "man" "dev" "lib" "out" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ oniguruma ];
 
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "CVE-2015-8863.patch";
-      url = https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd.diff;
-      sha256 = "18bjanzvklfzlzzd690y88725l7iwl4f6wnr429na5pfmircbpvh";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "CVE-2016-4074.patch";
-      url = https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/stedolan/jq/pull/1214.diff;
-      sha256 = "1w8bapnyp56di6p9casbfczfn8258rw0z16grydavdjddfm280l9";
-    })
-  ]
-    ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin ./darwin-strptime-test.patch;
-
-  patchFlags = [ "-p2" ]; # `src` subdir was introduced after v1.5 was released
-
   configureFlags =
     [
     "--bindir=\${bin}/bin"