diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/nu/numatop/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/nu/numatop/package.nix
index 16f5401f8838..5f5a867baed4 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/nu/numatop/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/nu/numatop/package.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   lib,
   stdenv,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  fetchpatch,
   autoreconfHook,
   pkg-config,
   numactl,
@@ -10,49 +9,37 @@
   check,
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "numatop";
-  version = "2.2";
+  version = "2.5.1";
+
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "intel";
     repo = "numatop";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-GJvTwqgx34ZW10eIJj/xiKe3ZkAfs7GlJImz8jrnjfI=";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-951Sm2zu1mPxMbPdZy+kMH8RAQo0z+Gqf2lxsY/+Lrg=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     autoreconfHook
     pkg-config
   ];
+
   buildInputs = [
     numactl
     ncurses
   ];
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ check ];
 
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      # https://github.com/intel/numatop/pull/54
-      url = "https://github.com/intel/numatop/compare/eab0ac5253c5843aa0f0ac36e2eec7612207711b...c1001fd926c24eae2d40729492e07270ce133b72.patch";
-      sha256 = "sha256-TbMLv7TT9T8wE4uJ1a/AroyPPwrwL0eX5IBLsh9GTTM=";
-      name = "fix-string-operations.patch";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      # https://github.com/intel/numatop/pull/64
-      url = "https://github.com/intel/numatop/commit/635e2ce2ccb1ac793cc276a7fcb8a92b1ffefa5d.patch";
-      sha256 = "sha256-IevbSFJRTS5iQ5apHOVXzF67f3LJaW6j7DySFmVuyiM=";
-      name = "fix-format-strings-mvwprintw.patch";
-    })
-  ];
+  nativeCheckInputs = [ check ];
 
   doCheck = true;
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "Tool for runtime memory locality characterization and analysis of processes and threads on a NUMA system";
     mainProgram = "numatop";
     homepage = "https://01.org/numatop";
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ dtzWill ];
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ dtzWill ];
     platforms = [
       "i686-linux"
       "x86_64-linux"
@@ -60,4 +47,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       "powerpc64le-linux"
     ];
   };
-}
+})