diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 25b9f4e7cc92..7f0a21756c22 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -450,9 +450,6 @@ with haskellLib;
   # store. Testing is done upstream.
   arion-compose = dontCheck super.arion-compose;
 
-  # 2023-07-17: Outdated base bound https://github.com/srid/lvar/issues/5
-  lvar = doJailbreak super.lvar;
-
   # Don't call setEnv in parallel in the test suite (which leads to flaky failures)
   env-extra =
     appendPatches