diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/default.nix
index 7dd04d251202..6e3f8edbb9ca 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, pam ? null }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "screen-4.0.3";
+  name = "screen-4.2.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/screen/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0xvckv1ia5pjxk7fs4za6gz2njwmfd54sc464n8ab13096qxbw3q";
+    sha256 = "105hp6qdd8rl71p81klmxiz4mlb60kh9r7czayrx40g38x858s2l";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./screen-4.0.3-caption-colors.patch
-              ./screen-4.0.3-long-term.patch ];
-
   preConfigure = ''
     configureFlags="--enable-telnet --enable-pam --infodir=$out/share/info --mandir=$out/share/man --with-sys-screenrc=/etc/screenrc"
     sed -i -e "s|/usr/local|/non-existent|g" -e "s|/usr|/non-existent|g" configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/screen-4.0.3-caption-colors.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/screen-4.0.3-caption-colors.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 14365dc81c1b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/screen-4.0.3-caption-colors.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# Source:
-# https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/screen/trunk/screen-4.0.3-caption-colors.patch
-# modified by hand for nixpkgs
-
-From e6a28cf8bfdac15faa6c267bf476ddcaddf48d67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <sadrul@users.sourceforge.net>
-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:17:26 +0000
-Subject: Accommodate more color changes in the caption.
-
----
-diff --git a/src/screen.c b/src/screen.c
-index b1c3dfb..2cceae0 100644
---- a/screen.c
-+++ b/screen.c
-@@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ static const char months[] = "JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec";
- #endif
- 
- static char winmsg_buf[MAXSTR];
--#define MAX_WINMSG_REND 16	/* rendition changes */
-+#define MAX_WINMSG_REND 256	/* rendition changes */
- static int winmsg_rend[MAX_WINMSG_REND];
- static int winmsg_rendpos[MAX_WINMSG_REND];
- static int winmsg_numrend;
---
-cgit v0.8.3.4
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/screen-4.0.3-long-term.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/screen-4.0.3-long-term.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f94f9da8ac4a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/screen-4.0.3-long-term.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# Source:
-# https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/screen/trunk/screen-4.0.3-long-term.patch
-
-# This fixes long terminal names handling, e.g. TERM=rxvt-unicode-256colors works
-# as expected.
-diff -Naur screen-4.0.3-orig//display.h screen-4.0.3/display.h
---- screen-4.0.3-orig//display.h	2003-07-02 00:01:42.000000000 +1000
-+++ screen-4.0.3/display.h	2010-12-03 20:19:23.826671689 +1000
-@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
-   struct win *d_other;		/* pointer to other window */
-   int   d_nonblock;		/* -1 don't block if obufmax reached */
- 				/* >0: block after nonblock secs */
--  char  d_termname[20 + 1];	/* $TERM */
-+  char  d_termname[40 + 1];	/* $TERM */
-   char	*d_tentry;		/* buffer for tgetstr */
-   char	d_tcinited;		/* termcap inited flag */
-   int	d_width, d_height;	/* width/height of the screen */
-diff -Naur screen-4.0.3-orig//screen.h screen-4.0.3/screen.h
---- screen-4.0.3-orig//screen.h	2003-08-22 22:28:43.000000000 +1000
-+++ screen-4.0.3/screen.h	2010-12-03 20:19:43.163338333 +1000
-@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
- 	  char preselect[20];
- 	  int esc;		/* his new escape character unless -1 */
- 	  int meta_esc;		/* his new meta esc character unless -1 */
--	  char envterm[20 + 1];	/* terminal type */
-+	  char envterm[40 + 1];	/* terminal type */
- 	  int encoding;		/* encoding of display */
- 	}
-       attach;