diff --git a/pkgs/applications/gis/saga/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/gis/saga/default.nix
index 4738bfba14a..34bb8c9f55a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/gis/saga/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/gis/saga/default.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   unixODBC , poppler, hdf4, hdf5, netcdf, sqlite, qhull, giflib }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "saga-6.3.0";
+  name = "saga-7.2.0";
 
   # See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nix-devel/h_vSzEJAPXs
   # for why the have additional buildInputs on darwin
@@ -14,13 +14,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  patches = [ ./finite-6.3.0.patch];
-
   CXXFLAGS = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.cc.isClang "-std=c++11 -Wno-narrowing";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/project/saga-gis/SAGA%20-%206/SAGA%20-%206.3.0/saga-6.3.0.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0hyjim8fcp3mna1hig22nnn4ki3j6b7096am2amcs99sdr09jjxv";
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/project/saga-gis/SAGA%20-%207/SAGA%20-%207.2.0/saga-7.2.0.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "10gjc5mc5kwg2c2la22hgwx6s5q60z9xxffjpjw0zrlhksijl5an";
   };
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/gis/saga/finite-6.3.0.patch b/pkgs/applications/gis/saga/finite-6.3.0.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 91c9543edfd..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/gis/saga/finite-6.3.0.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/src/tools/imagery/imagery_maxent/me.cpp b/src/tools/imagery/imagery_maxent/me.cpp
-index c5da854..d3e9cff 100755
---- a/src/tools/imagery/imagery_maxent/me.cpp
-+++ b/src/tools/imagery/imagery_maxent/me.cpp
-@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
- #ifdef _SAGA_MSW
- #define isinf(x) (!_finite(x))
- #else
--#define isinf(x) (!finite(x))
-+#define isinf(x) (!isfinite(x))
- #endif
- 
- /** The input array contains a set of log probabilities lp1, lp2, lp3
-@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ double sumLogProb(vector<double>& logprobs)
- /** returns log (e^logprob1 + e^logprob2). */
- double sumLogProb(double logprob1, double logprob2)
- {
--  if (isinf(logprob1) && isinf(logprob2)) 
-+  if (isinf(logprob1) && isinf(logprob2))
-     return logprob1; // both prob1 and prob2 are 0, return log 0.
-   if (logprob1>logprob2)
-     return logprob1+log(1+exp(logprob2-logprob1));
-@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ void MaxEntModel::print(ostream& ostrm, MaxEntTrainer& trainer)
-   for (FtMap::iterator it = _index.begin(); it!=_index.end(); it++) {
-     unsigned long i = it->second;
-     for (unsigned long c = 0; c<_classes; c++) {
--      ostrm << "lambda(" << trainer.className(c) << ", " 
--	    << trainer.getStr(it->first) << ")=" 
-+      ostrm << "lambda(" << trainer.className(c) << ", "
-+	    << trainer.getStr(it->first) << ")="
- 	    << _lambda[i+c] << endl;
-     }
-   }
-@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ int MaxEntModel::getProbs(MaxEntEvent& event, vector<double>& probs)
-     double s = 0;
-     for (unsigned int f = 0; f<event.size(); f++) {
-       FtMap::iterator it = _index.find(event[f]);
--      if (it!=_index.end()) 
-+      if (it!=_index.end())
- 	s += _lambda[it->second+c];
-     }
-     probs[c] = s;
-@@ -142,10 +142,10 @@ double MaxEntModel::getObsCounts(EventSet& events, vector<double>& obsCounts)
-     double ftSum = 0;
-     for (unsigned long j=0; j<e.size(); j++) {
-       FtMap::iterator it = _index.find(e[j]);
--      if (it!=_index.end()) 
-+      if (it!=_index.end())
- 	obsCounts[it->second+c] += count;
-       else { // new feature, need to expand obsCounts and _lambda
--	for (unsigned int k = 0; k<_classes; k++) 
-+	for (unsigned int k = 0; k<_classes; k++)
- 	  obsCounts.push_back(0);
- 	obsCounts[_lambda.size()+c] += count;
- 	addFeature(e[j]);