diff --git a/community/mercurial/APKBUILD b/community/mercurial/APKBUILD
index 6bfd24dc71e7..8a70d558f3d7 100644
--- a/community/mercurial/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/mercurial/APKBUILD
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Contributor: Sören Tempel <soeren+alpine@soeren-tempel.net>
 # Maintainer: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=mercurial
-pkgver=6.7.4
-pkgrel=1
+pkgver=6.8
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Scalable distributed SCM tool"
 url="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/"
 arch="all"
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ subpackages="
 	"
 source="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/mercurial-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	blacklist.txt
-	rust-cpython-v0.7.2.patch
 	"
 options="net !check"
 
@@ -128,7 +127,6 @@ lang() {
 }
 
 sha512sums="
-d2668750b4b86bf31323f103095a47cc963820f37769384f00b763b0cb2810ca660bce985a2d0b35b2617b57d6ecb61c97e7698198e89bb69c183bc91eeab96f  mercurial-6.7.4.tar.gz
+e0eab77c4599f24e33210404b16d591952fbcb7c5e3b64805abc18167c67eaad3d9baa2226e885add5e36569a5148d6a11c5690d68167690570e6e5b243e50f0  mercurial-6.8.tar.gz
 b24e1b79ca36ac1d78a5af4e35eb87581f209255838327a7d9315c17175d41bfa4b7f98c66be078cfa1e7d27a41c1a12bba265fa6d3d30edb4e2ba599fe0ed18  blacklist.txt
-fce5aac289b795968467aaa24c0c1034f6100aa05ee30802b23d16cafb16492ce48bcf68c9b4c637dde6f0af345390e44fe0008337991ed8e002ac9e78f945cf  rust-cpython-v0.7.2.patch
 "
diff --git a/community/mercurial/rust-cpython-v0.7.2.patch b/community/mercurial/rust-cpython-v0.7.2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8058355f5f74..000000000000
--- a/community/mercurial/rust-cpython-v0.7.2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/rust/Cargo.lock b/rust/Cargo.lock
---- a/rust/Cargo.lock
-+++ b/rust/Cargo.lock
-@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ dependencies = [
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "cpython"
--version = "0.7.1"
-+version = "0.7.2"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "3052106c29da7390237bc2310c1928335733b286287754ea85e6093d2495280e"
-+checksum = "43b398a2c65baaf5892f10bb69b52508bf7a993380cc4ecd3785aaebb5c79389"
- dependencies = [
-  "libc",
-  "num-traits",
-@@ -912,9 +912,9 @@ dependencies = [
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "python3-sys"
--version = "0.7.1"
-+version = "0.7.2"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "49f8b50d72fb3015735aa403eebf19bbd72c093bfeeae24ee798be5f2f1aab52"
-+checksum = "0f53ef6740367a09718d2cd21ba15b0d7972342a38e554736bcee7773e45c9f5"
- dependencies = [
-  "libc",
-  "regex",