diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/symengine/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/symengine/default.nix
index cbdb542dbfd96..9d6ef0f2404c9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/symengine/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/symengine/default.nix
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "symengine";
-  version = "0.12.0";
+  version = "0.13.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "symengine";
     repo = "symengine";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-SfifujR2VM1OlPN0ZRUC3hWImXO/8PuiyrBdpyNoKW4=";
+    hash = "sha256-hMTndwIXTqf3cxKZdnn38SFvZLEb48k1Lvm5/hW7U8k=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/symengine/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/symengine/default.nix
index bd01445dd62e7..abea3479d15bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/symengine/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/symengine/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   lib,
   buildPythonPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  fetchpatch,
   cython,
   cmake,
   symengine,
@@ -30,16 +29,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     SymEngine_DIR = "${symengine}";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # Distutils has been removed in python 3.12
-    # See https://github.com/symengine/symengine.py/pull/478
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "no-distutils.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/symengine/symengine.py/pull/478/commits/e72006d5f7425cd50c54b22766e0ed4bcd2dca85.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-kGJRGkBgxOfI1wf88JwnSztkOYd1wvg62H7wA6CcYEQ=";
-    })
-  ];
-
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace setup.py \
       --replace-fail "'cython>=0.29.24'" "'cython'"