diff --git a/srcpkgs/rsyslog/patches/json-tokener-fix.patch b/srcpkgs/rsyslog/patches/json-tokener-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f5bffe16f..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/rsyslog/patches/json-tokener-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-From 6b47dd542d07ed557f02af9970d1004eb262e1c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>
-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:33:41 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] bugfix: build failure on systems which don't have
- json_tokener_errors
-
-Older versions of json-c need to use a different API (which don't exists
-on newer versions, unfortunately...)
-Thanks to Thomas D. for reporting this problem.
----
- ChangeLog     | 6 ++++++
- runtime/msg.c | 6 +++++-
- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
-index 177387d..cb09b6c 100644
---- ChangeLog
-+++ ChangeLog
-@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-+Version 8.4.1 [v8-stable] 2014-08-??
-+- bugfix: build failure on systems which don't have json_tokener_errors
-+  Older versions of json-c need to use a different API (which don't exists
-+  on newer versions, unfortunately...)
-+  Thanks to Thomas D. for reporting this problem.
-+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Version 8.4.0 [v8-stable] 2014-08-18
- - this is the new stable branch, which incorporates all enhancements of
-   rsyslog 8.3.
-diff --git a/runtime/msg.c b/runtime/msg.c
-index 66c3b7b..81b13f9 100644
---- runtime/msg.c
-+++ runtime/msg.c
-@@ -4074,7 +4074,11 @@ MsgSetPropsViaJSON(msg_t *__restrict__ const pMsg, const uchar *__restrict__ con
- 
- 			err = tokener->err;
- 			if(err != json_tokener_continue)
--				errMsg = json_tokener_errors[err];
-+#				if HAVE_JSON_TOKENER_ERROR_DESC
-+					errMsg = json_tokener_error_desc(err);
-+#				else
-+					errMsg = json_tokener_errors[err];
-+#				endif
- 			else
- 				errMsg = "Unterminated input";
- 		} else if(!json_object_is_type(json, json_type_object))
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rsyslog/patches/non-atomic-builtins-64-fix.patch b/srcpkgs/rsyslog/patches/non-atomic-builtins-64-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 763811265e..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/rsyslog/patches/non-atomic-builtins-64-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-From a92972687652dc8b793ee5cb04ec676910aaa725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>
-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:45:12 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] build fix for systems without 64bit atomic builtins
-
-Triggered for instance when cross compiling to armv6.
----
- runtime/statsobj.h | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/runtime/statsobj.h b/runtime/statsobj.h
-index 347f639..d56485d 100644
---- runtime/statsobj.h
-+++ runtime/statsobj.h
-@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ PROTOTYPEObj(statsobj);
-  */
- #define STATSCOUNTER_DEF(ctr, mut) \
- 	intctr_t ctr; \
--	DEF_ATOMIC_HELPER_MUT64(mut)
-+	DEF_ATOMIC_HELPER_MUT64(mut);
- 
- #define STATSCOUNTER_INIT(ctr, mut) \
- 	INIT_ATOMIC_HELPER_MUT64(mut); \
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rsyslog/template b/srcpkgs/rsyslog/template
index 2e8c08d494..4e374f6912 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rsyslog/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rsyslog/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'rsyslog'
 pkgname=rsyslog
-version=8.4.0
+version=8.4.1
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--enable-gnutls --enable-mysql --enable-pgsql
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://www.rsyslog.com"
 distfiles="${homepage}/files/download/rsyslog/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
-checksum=bf0ab78c3739d49527c3734f3da7f48cb90e51f89d9741adced0cf234c7190c0
+checksum=1c7f3e8ebb7f9865dd4100c4982d50567dded2218177086d1e02d698e352d8ac
 
 lib32disabled=yes
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"