diff --git a/pkgs/servers/web-apps/searx/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/web-apps/searx/default.nix
index 730e5c41bbf2..dc87acddd881 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/web-apps/searx/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/web-apps/searx/default.nix
@@ -4,39 +4,18 @@ with python3Packages;
 
 buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "searx";
-  version = "0.16.0";
+  version = "0.17.0";
 
   # Can not use PyPI because certain test files are missing.
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "asciimoo";
     repo = "searx";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "0hfa4nmis98yvghxw866rzjpmhb2ln8l6l8g9yx4m79b2lk76xcs";
+    sha256 = "0pznz3wsaikl8khmzqvj05kzh5y07hjw8gqhy6x0lz1b00cn5af4";
   };
 
-  patches = [(fetchpatch {
-    url = "https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/commit/b8b13372c8fd3bfe978a1c724ab98b05348df054.patch";
-    sha256 = "1zc3dx8pgqfg0bj48ihckjk9xrrm33jlnmj8k02g17gfcmj7566a";
-  })];
-
   postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace requirements.txt \
-      --replace 'certifi==2019.3.9' 'certifi' \
-      --replace 'flask==1.0.2' 'flask' \
-      --replace 'flask-babel==0.12.2' 'flask-babel' \
-      --replace 'jinja2==2.10.1' 'jinja2' \
-      --replace 'lxml==4.3.3' 'lxml' \
-      --replace 'idna==2.8' 'idna' \
-      --replace 'pygments==2.1.3' 'pygments>=2.1,<3.0' \
-      --replace 'pyopenssl==19.0.0' 'pyopenssl' \
-      --replace 'python-dateutil==2.8.0' 'python-dateutil==2.8.*' \
-      --replace 'pyyaml==5.1' 'pyyaml' \
-      --replace 'requests[socks]==2.22.0' 'requests[socks]'
-    substituteInPlace requirements-dev.txt \
-      --replace 'plone.testing==5.0.0' 'plone.testing' \
-      --replace 'pep8==1.7.0' 'pep8==1.7.*' \
-      --replace 'splinter==0.11.0' 'splinter' \
-      --replace 'selenium==3.141.0' 'selenium'
+    sed -i 's/==.*$//' requirements.txt
   '';
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [