diff --git a/srcpkgs/vdirsyncer/patches/lxml.patch b/srcpkgs/vdirsyncer/patches/lxml.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f84994d04ce..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/vdirsyncer/patches/lxml.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-From 4e8dbe9598cab324c5883f21257dd476c45815aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Markus Unterwaditzer <markus@unterwaditzer.net>
-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:38:02 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Only pin down lxml version for PyPy
-
----
- setup.py | 9 +++++++--
- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git setup.py setup.py
-index 0a4efa6..bffa14b 100644
---- setup.py
-+++ setup.py
-@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
- 
- 
- from setuptools import find_packages, setup
-+import platform
- 
- 
- setup(
-@@ -37,8 +38,12 @@
-         'click-threading',
-         # https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2930
-         'requests !=2.9.0',
--        # https://github.com/untitaker/vdirsyncer/issues/298
--        'lxml >=3.1, <=3.4.4',
-+        'lxml >=3.1' + (
-+            # https://github.com/untitaker/vdirsyncer/issues/298
-+            ', <=3.4.4'
-+            if platform.python_implementation() == 'PyPy'
-+            else ''
-+        ),
-         # https://github.com/sigmavirus24/requests-toolbelt/pull/28
-         'requests_toolbelt >=0.5.0',
-         'atomicwrites'
diff --git a/srcpkgs/vdirsyncer/template b/srcpkgs/vdirsyncer/template
index c9d7110fab2..5234e058f1c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/vdirsyncer/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/vdirsyncer/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'vdirsyncer'
 pkgname=vdirsyncer
-version=0.7.4
-revision=2
+version=0.7.5
+revision=1
 noarch=yes
 build_style=python-module
 hostmakedepends="python-setuptools"
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ maintainer="Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="https://vdirsyncer.readthedocs.org/"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/v/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=cd3c3b8d7d82a51479392b26c1178f4c90555aba7137912dcd216888d447fbdd
+checksum=3f51c1fabac7f231327deb098998185cbd77564dc1bfc29f4bc8d89226c96a37
 
 pre_build() {
 	sed -e '/use_scm_version/,/setuptools_scm/ d' \