diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/rocksdb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/rocksdb/default.nix
index 5f023da49f3..0cb36fd0260 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/rocksdb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/rocksdb/default.nix
@@ -15,28 +15,20 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "rocksdb";
-  version = "6.10.2";
+  version = "6.12.7";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "facebook";
     repo = pname;
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1f2wqb6px812ijcivq3rsknqgkv01wblc6sd8wavhrw8qljgr3s1";
+    sha256 = "0cpi0v691xsh20hj5x2y2z7dmjvhd3brr0swszv0xqjg2q0f7zdb";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ninja ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ bzip2 lz4 snappy zlib zstd ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional enableJemalloc jemalloc;
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ bzip2 lz4 snappy zlib zstd ];
 
-  patches = [
-    # Without this change private dependencies are exported.
-    # Can be removed after the next release.
-    # https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6790
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/commit/07204837ce8d66e1e6e4893178f3fd040f9c1044.patch";
-      sha256 = "17097ybkhy0i089zzkpvcj65c7g5skvjvdzi1k09x4i1d719wm39";
-    })
-  ];
+  buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional enableJemalloc jemalloc;
 
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.cc.isGNU "-Wno-error=deprecated-copy -Wno-error=pessimizing-move";