diff --git a/packages/python/system/simplejson/package.mk b/packages/python/system/simplejson/package.mk
index 29578689afe..714befa3e6f 100644
--- a/packages/python/system/simplejson/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/system/simplejson/package.mk
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="simplejson"
-PKG_VERSION="2.6.2"
+PKG_VERSION="3.4.0"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
diff --git a/packages/python/system/simplejson/patches/simplejson-2.6.2-setuptools.patch b/packages/python/system/simplejson/patches/simplejson-2.6.2-setuptools.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dd1ecb8d656..00000000000
--- a/packages/python/system/simplejson/patches/simplejson-2.6.2-setuptools.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur simplejson-2.6.2/setup.py simplejson-2.6.2.patch/setup.py
---- simplejson-2.6.2/setup.py	2012-09-21 21:25:54.000000000 +0200
-+++ simplejson-2.6.2.patch/setup.py	2012-11-06 20:22:56.327643425 +0100
-@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
- #!/usr/bin/env python
- 
- import sys
--from distutils.core import setup, Extension, Command
-+from setuptools import setup, Extension, Command
- from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
- from distutils.errors import CCompilerError, DistutilsExecError, \
-     DistutilsPlatformError