diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sqlalchemy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sqlalchemy/default.nix
index e77f2e0e7b2..93a2fa233f6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sqlalchemy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sqlalchemy/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 { stdenv, lib, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, isPy3k, isPy35
 , mock
 , pysqlite
-, fetchpatch
 , pytestCheckHook
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "SQLAlchemy";
-  version = "1.3.10";
+  version = "1.3.13";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "0f0768b5db594517e1f5e1572c73d14cf295140756431270d89496dc13d5e46c";
+    sha256 = "64a7b71846db6423807e96820993fa12a03b89127d278290ca25c0b11ed7b4fb";
   };
 
   checkInputs = [
@@ -29,20 +28,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   disabledTests = lib.optionals isPy35 [ "exception_persistent_flush_py3k "]
     ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ "MemUsageWBackendTest" "MemUsageTest" ];
 
-  patches = [
-    # Two patches for sqlite 3.30 compatibility.
-    # https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/pull/4921
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/commit/8b35ba54ab31aab13a34c360a31d014da1f5c809.patch;
-      sha256 = "065csr6pd7j1fjnv72wbz8s6xhydi5f161gj7nyqq86rxkh0nl0n";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/commit/e18534a9045786efdaf4963515222838c62e0300.patch;
-      sha256 = "0bwfwp5gmgg12qilvwdd2a5xi76bllzzapb23ybh1k34c5pla195";
-    })
-
-  ];
-
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = http://www.sqlalchemy.org/;
     description = "A Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper";