diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/visidata/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/visidata/default.nix
index d7a7c4d9f75f..4790d433647e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/visidata/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/visidata/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 , lib
 , buildPythonApplication
 , fetchFromGitHub
-, fetchpatch
   # python requirements
 , beautifulsoup4
 , boto3
@@ -23,6 +22,8 @@
 , pyarrow
 , pyshp
 , pypng
+, msgpack
+, brotli
 , python-dateutil
 , pyyaml
 , requests
@@ -46,29 +47,15 @@
 }:
 buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "visidata";
-  version = "3.0.2";
+  version = "3.1.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "saulpw";
     repo = "visidata";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-gplrkrFTIP6TLvk1YazD5roDzsPvDtOXLlTOmTio52s=";
+    hash = "sha256-ICEYC9QjYrB+oTzakfjgyg4DigzDOtYnqHRTaqF7Gw0=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # Drop when next release is out
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "drop-support-for-python-37.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/commit/738bb8b43814c14b1b8a1f1f60397c1520c5ef4a.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-5jDAzKMuW3s7BCGpWyLcS4Lw8GUbjNxVhF5mUKbR1YY=";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "update-tests-for-python-312.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/commit/627f6f126cdd49bcdda0bbc16fab42eb5bd42103.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-3FHgjLrzMHObEheJoRY8VlnDUtDZ68FqCqAyhP7333E=";
-    })
-  ];
-
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     # from visidata/requirements.txt
     # packages not (yet) present in nixpkgs are commented
@@ -86,6 +73,9 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
     #mapbox-vector-tile
     pypng
     #pyconll
+    msgpack
+    brotli
+    #fecfile
     fonttools
     #sas7bdat
     #xport
@@ -139,6 +129,7 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
     # tests to disable because we don't have a package to load such files
     rm -f tests/load-conllu.vdj         # no 'pyconll'
     rm -f tests/load-sav.vd             # no 'savReaderWriter'
+    rm -f tests/load-fec.vdj            # no 'fecfile'
 
     # tests use git to compare outputs to references
     git init -b "test-reference"
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1d1e21622b7e..0760f5a8bd5a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13330,8 +13330,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   vimwiki-markdown = python3Packages.callPackage ../tools/misc/vimwiki-markdown { };
 
-  visidata = (newScope python3Packages) ../applications/misc/visidata {
-  };
+  visidata = python3Packages.callPackage ../applications/misc/visidata { };
 
   vit = callPackage ../applications/misc/vit { };