diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/1.7-bin.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/1.8-bin.nix
similarity index 77%
rename from pkgs/development/compilers/julia/1.7-bin.nix
rename to pkgs/development/compilers/julia/1.8-bin.nix
index 5352d38a221a..bd942d1bfe5f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/1.7-bin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/1.8-bin.nix
@@ -2,29 +2,16 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "julia-bin";
-  version = "1.7.3";
+  version = "1.8.0";
 
   src = {
     x86_64-linux = fetchurl {
       url = "https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/${lib.versions.majorMinor version}/julia-${version}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0ff7ypr76xf99h3dmy1xdnkq2xn432qnzihxs72xrd4j5nhlybwv";
+      sha256 = "sha256-6A1zLMt/eeAA15jLi2Vtw2QatZUW1uTlLhZ2UBeJKgA=";
     };
   }.${stdenv.hostPlatform.system} or (throw "Unsupported system: ${stdenv.hostPlatform.system}");
 
-  # Julia’s source files are in different locations for source and binary
-  # releases. Thus we temporarily create a symlink to allow us to share patches
-  # with source releases.
-  prePatch = ''
-    ln -s share/julia/test
-  '';
-  patches = [
-    # Source release Nix patch(es) relevant for binary releases as well.
-    ./patches/1.7-bin/0005-nix-Enable-parallel-unit-tests-for-sandbox.patch
-  ];
   postPatch = ''
-    # Revert symlink hack.
-    rm test
-
     # Julia fails to pick up our Certification Authority root certificates, but
     # it provides its own so we can simply disable the test. Patching in the
     # dynamic path to ours require us to rebuild the Julia system image.
@@ -46,6 +33,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   doInstallCheck = true;
   preInstallCheck = ''
+    export JULIA_TEST_USE_MULTIPLE_WORKERS=true
     # Some tests require read/write access to $HOME.
     export HOME="$TMPDIR"
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/patches/1.7-bin/0005-nix-Enable-parallel-unit-tests-for-sandbox.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/patches/1.7-bin/0005-nix-Enable-parallel-unit-tests-for-sandbox.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 243a9cfd76ae..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/patches/1.7-bin/0005-nix-Enable-parallel-unit-tests-for-sandbox.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-From 44c2c979c4f2222567ce65f506cf47fb87482348 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Pontus Stenetorp <pontus@stenetorp.se>
-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 04:37:44 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH 5/6] nix: Enable parallel unit tests for sandbox
-
-Disabled by default due to lack of networking in the Nix sandbox. This
-greatly speeds up the build process on a multi-core system.
----
- test/runtests.jl | 5 +++--
- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
-index 2f9cd058bb..2f8c19fa32 100644
---- a/test/runtests.jl
-+++ b/test/runtests.jl
-@@ -83,8 +83,9 @@ prepend!(tests, linalg_tests)
- import LinearAlgebra
- cd(@__DIR__) do
-     n = 1
--    if net_on
--        n = min(Sys.CPU_THREADS, length(tests))
-+    if net_on || haskey(ENV, "NIX_BUILD_CORES")
-+        x = haskey(ENV, "NIX_BUILD_CORES") ? parse(Int, ENV["NIX_BUILD_CORES"]) : Sys.CPU_THREADS
-+        n = min(x, Sys.CPU_THREADS, length(tests))
-         n > 1 && addprocs_with_testenv(n)
-         LinearAlgebra.BLAS.set_num_threads(1)
-     end
--- 
-2.29.3
-
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 47c6302adac5..4625ec9e6160 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   julia_11 = throw "julia_11 has been deprecated in favor of the latest stable version"; # Added 2020-09-15
   julia_13 = throw "julia_13 has been deprecated in favor of the latest stable version"; # Added 2021-03-13
   julia_10-bin = throw "julia_10-bin has been deprecated in favor of the latest LTS version"; # Added 2021-12-02
+  julia_17-bin = throw "julia_17-bin has been deprecated in favor of the latest stable version"; # Added 2022-09-04
 
   json_glib = throw "'json_glib' has been renamed to/replaced by 'json-glib'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   jvmci8 = throw "graalvm8 and its tools were deprecated in favor of graalvm8-ce"; # Added 2021-10-15
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0106424aa8eb..f3e76d2906f3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13938,10 +13938,10 @@ with pkgs;
   julia = julia-stable;
 
   julia_16-bin = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.6-bin.nix { };
-  julia_17-bin = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.7-bin.nix { };
+  julia_18-bin = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.8-bin.nix { };
 
   julia-lts-bin = julia_16-bin;
-  julia-stable-bin = julia_17-bin;
+  julia-stable-bin = julia_18-bin;
   julia-bin = julia-stable-bin;
 
   jwasm =  callPackage ../development/compilers/jwasm { };