diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/default.nix
index 6ea970a11769..31ac82ea065f 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/default.nix
@@ -1,26 +1,29 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchgit }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchgit, unstableGitUpdater, writeShellScript }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "numad";
-  version = "0.5";
+  version = "0.5-unstable-2023-09-06";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "https://pagure.io/numad.git";
-    rev = "334278ff3d774d105939743436d7378a189e8693";
-    sha256 = "sha256-6nrbfooUI1ufJhsPf68li5584oKQcznXQlxfpStuX5I=";
+    rev = "3399d89305b6560e27e70aff4ad9fb403dedf947";
+    sha256 = "sha256-USEffVcakaAbilqijJmpro92ujvxbglcXxyBlntMxaI=";
   };
 
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-
-  patches = [
-    ./numad-linker-flags.patch
-  ];
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace Makefile --replace "install -m" "install -Dm"
   '';
 
   makeFlags = [ "prefix=$(out)" ];
 
+  passthru.updateScript = unstableGitUpdater {
+    tagConverter = writeShellScript "tagConverter" ''
+      read tag
+      test "$tag" = "0" \
+        && tag=0.5; echo "$tag"
+    '';
+  };
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "User-level daemon that monitors NUMA topology and processes resource consumption to facilitate good NUMA resource access";
     mainProgram = "numad";
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/numad-linker-flags.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/numad-linker-flags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 97f3dc8b6cf7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/numad-linker-flags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-From 9eb3cc5c51d846c8c8b750a4eb55545d7b5fea6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:41:26 -0400
-Subject: [PATCH] use LDLIBS for linker flags
-
-When you put -lfoo into the dependency line of make, it forces it to
-search /lib and /usr/lib for files to link against.  This can cause
-problems when trying to cross-compile or build for different ABIs.
-Use the standard LDLIBS variable instead.
-
-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/505760
-Reported-by: Georgi Georgiev <chutzimir@gmail.com>
-Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
----
- Makefile | 3 ++-
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index f3838b4..f2e9a6e 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ docdir := ${prefix}/share/doc
- 
- all: numad
- 
--numad: numad.o -lpthread
-+LDLIBS := -lpthread
-+numad: numad.o
- 
- AR ?= ar
- RANLIB ?= ranlib
--- 
-1.9.2