diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ve/vector/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ve/vector/package.nix
index be1442314a8c..545d0c9238f3 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ve/vector/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ve/vector/package.nix
@@ -24,21 +24,18 @@
   zlib,
 }:
 
-let
+rustPlatform.buildRustPackage (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "vector";
-  version = "0.49.0";
-in
-rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
-  inherit pname version;
+  version = "0.50.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "vectordotdev";
     repo = "vector";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-sow1BFJgwOOajJ7dTmoUNJ3OpI9/73Uigrcb1CIBOE8=";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-vyRvBCpWOKeI7Y+RbxCdVCAF45vWjC7ZD4PCS0QloPg=";
   };
 
-  cargoHash = "sha256-a7923ubtads5ZLjc+27RHtPFKmgv0aMOxiSrvIVr5VA=";
+  cargoHash = "sha256-4Nsq5Ta08wlHuevOfrr1mPi+qY+49q9S+AtbY35sfEM=";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     pkg-config
@@ -64,19 +61,6 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
     zlib
   ];
 
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "1.89-mismatched-lifetime-syntaxes.patch";
-      url = "https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/vectordotdev/vector/pull/23645.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-2ADlF4/Z1uR3LR6608lA4tseh+MnHb097PACD/Nq6/0=";
-    })
-  ];
-
-  # Rust 1.80.0 introduced the unexepcted_cfgs lint, which requires crates to allowlist custom cfg options that they inspect.
-  # Upstream is working on fixing this in https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/pull/20949, but silencing the lint lets us build again until then.
-  # TODO remove when upgrading Vector
-  RUSTFLAGS = "--allow dependency_on_unit_never_type_fallback --allow dead_code";
-
   # Without this, we get SIGSEGV failure
   RUST_MIN_STACK = 33554432;
 
@@ -138,6 +122,7 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "High-performance observability data pipeline";
     homepage = "https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/releases/tag/v${finalAttrs.version}";
     license = licenses.mpl20;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [
       thoughtpolice
@@ -146,4 +131,4 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
     platforms = with platforms; all;
     mainProgram = "vector";
   };
-}
+})