diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boehm-gc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boehm-gc/default.nix
index 85ae01036ed1..cbbd705e37f2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/boehm-gc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/boehm-gc/default.nix
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "boehm-gc";
-  version = "8.0.4";
+  version = "8.0.6";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     urls = [
       "https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/releases/download/v${version}/gc-${version}.tar.gz"
       "https://www.hboehm.info/gc/gc_source/gc-${version}.tar.gz"
     ];
-    sha256 = "1798rp3mcfkgs38ynkbg2p47bq59pisrc6mn0l20pb5iczf0ssj3";
+    sha256 = "3b4914abc9fa76593596773e4da671d7ed4d5390e3d46fbf2e5f155e121bea11";
   };
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" "doc" ];
@@ -22,10 +22,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE+=" -D_GNU_SOURCE -DUSE_MMAP -DHAVE_DL_ITERATE_PHDR"
   '';
 
-  patches = # https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/pull/208
-    lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isRiscV ./riscv.patch
-    # boehm-gc whitelists GCC threading models
-    ++ lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isMinGW ./mcfgthread.patch;
+  # boehm-gc whitelists GCC threading models
+  patches = lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isMinGW ./mcfgthread.patch;
 
   configureFlags =
     [ "--enable-cplusplus" "--with-libatomic-ops=none" ]