diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ycmd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ycmd/default.nix
index 5f90525feca..2eb9b453661 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ycmd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ycmd/default.nix
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "ycmd-${version}";
-  version = "2017-11-05";
+  version = "2018-06-14";
 
   src = fetchgit {
-    url = "git://github.com/Valloric/ycmd.git";
-    rev = "0ca16e7ba3a9078b697befdce64104e61829aa3b";
-    sha256 = "0bs94iv521ac2n53n3k8mw3s6v0hi3hhxhjsr0ips3n99al8wndi";
+    url = "https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd.git";
+    rev = "29e36f74f749d10b8d6ce285c1453fac26f15a41";
+    sha256 = "0s62nf18jmgjihyba7lk7si8xrxsg60whdr430nlb5gjikag8zr5";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ${python.interpreter} build.py --system-libclang --clang-completer --system-boost
   '';
 
-  patches = [ ./dont-symlink-clang.patch ];
-
   configurePhase = ":";
 
   # remove the tests
@@ -53,8 +51,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
     mkdir -p $out/lib/ycmd/third_party/{gocode,godef,racerd/target/release}
 
-    cp -r third_party/JediHTTP $out/lib/ycmd/third_party
-    for p in waitress frozendict bottle python-future argparse requests; do
+    for p in jedi waitress frozendict bottle python-future requests; do
       cp -r third_party/$p $out/lib/ycmd/third_party
     done
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ycmd/dont-symlink-clang.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ycmd/dont-symlink-clang.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6199758de52..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ycmd/dont-symlink-clang.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/cpp/ycm/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/ycm/CMakeLists.txt
-index 133c987a..33625271 100644
---- a/cpp/ycm/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/cpp/ycm/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -359,28 +359,6 @@ if( LIBCLANG_TARGET )
-       POST_BUILD
-       COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy "${PATH_TO_LLVM_ROOT}/bin/libclang.dll" "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${PROJECT_NAME}>"
-     )
--  else()
--    add_custom_command(
--      TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}
--      POST_BUILD
--      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy "${LIBCLANG_TARGET}" "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${PROJECT_NAME}>"
--    )
--
--    if( NOT APPLE )
--      # When loading our library, the dynamic linker may look for
--      # libclang.so.x instead of libclang.so.x.y. Create the corresponding
--      # symlink.
--      get_filename_component( LIBCLANG_NAME ${LIBCLANG_TARGET} NAME )
--      string( REGEX REPLACE "([^.]+).([0-9]+).([0-9]+)$" "\\1.\\2"
--              LIBCLANG_SONAME ${LIBCLANG_NAME} )
--      add_custom_command(
--        TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}
--        POST_BUILD
--        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink
--        "${LIBCLANG_NAME}"
--        "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${PROJECT_NAME}>/${LIBCLANG_SONAME}"
--      )
--    endif()
-   endif()
- endif()
-