diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/oc/octopus/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/oc/octopus/package.nix
index 60eb732a24a7..787f8702ebb3 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/oc/octopus/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/oc/octopus/package.nix
@@ -31,20 +31,15 @@ assert (blas.isILP64 == arpack.isILP64);
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "octopus";
-  version = "16.0";
+  version = "16.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitLab {
     owner = "octopus-code";
     repo = "octopus";
-    rev = version;
-    hash = "sha256-sByiRTgAntJtSeL4h+49Mi9Rcxw2wK/BvXvsePa77HE=";
+    tag = version;
+    hash = "sha256-L97igB+bdZ19zpbffHi8DVSJXKtUyDqauUB+l5zzFwQ=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # Discover all MPI languages components to avoid scalpack discovery failure
-    ./scalapack-mpi-alias.patch
-  ];
-
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     which
     perl
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/oc/octopus/scalapack-mpi-alias.patch b/pkgs/by-name/oc/octopus/scalapack-mpi-alias.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c8253ebf1f3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/oc/octopus/scalapack-mpi-alias.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 70d89efb5e..47ba750d7a 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ set(Octopus_ext_libs)
- find_package(GSL)
- if (OCTOPUS_MPI)
- 	set(MPI_DETERMINE_LIBRARY_VERSION ON)
--	find_package(MPI 3 COMPONENTS Fortran)
-+	find_package(MPI 3)
- 	# Further set MKL variables
- 	if (MPI_Fortran_LIBRARY_VERSION_STRING MATCHES Intel)
- 		set(MKL_MPI intelmpi CACHE STRING "Octopus: Overloaded")