diff --git a/packages/rust/build.sh b/packages/rust/build.sh
index ea2c78cbef..ffa829aacc 100644
--- a/packages/rust/build.sh
+++ b/packages/rust/build.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.rust-lang.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Systems programming language focused on safety, speed and concurrency"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.70.0
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.71.1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION-src.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=bb8e9c564566b2d3228d95de9063a9254182446a161353f1d843bfbaf5c34639
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=371af0fbe04051e20a74dbea6d4e4e548f10f15309c49cae2688afb882b6c7f1
 _LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION=$(. $TERMUX_SCRIPTDIR/packages/libllvm/build.sh; echo $LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION)
 _LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION_NEXT=$((_LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION + 1))
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, clang, openssl, lld, zlib, libllvm (<< $_LLVM_MAJOR_VERSION_NEXT)"
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ termux_step_configure() {
 	# like 30 to 40 + minutes ... so lets get it right
 
 	# upstream only tests build ver one version behind $TERMUX_PKG_VERSION
-	local BOOTSTRAP_VERSION=1.69.0
+	local BOOTSTRAP_VERSION=1.70.0
 	rustup install $BOOTSTRAP_VERSION
 	rustup default $BOOTSTRAP_VERSION-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
 	export PATH=$HOME/.rustup/toolchains/$BOOTSTRAP_VERSION-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:$PATH
@@ -124,7 +123,8 @@ termux_step_make_install() {
 
 	$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/x.py install --stage 1 --host $CARGO_TARGET_NAME --target $CARGO_TARGET_NAME
 	$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/x.py install --stage 1 std --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
-	$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/x.py dist rustc-dev --host $CARGO_TARGET_NAME --target $CARGO_TARGET_NAME --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
+	$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/x.py dist rustc-dev --host $CARGO_TARGET_NAME --target $CARGO_TARGET_NAME
+	$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/x.py dist rustc-dev --host $CARGO_TARGET_NAME --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
 	tar xvf build/dist/rustc-dev-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION-$CARGO_TARGET_NAME.tar.gz
 	./rustc-dev-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION-$CARGO_TARGET_NAME/install.sh --prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX
 
diff --git a/packages/rust/src-tools-rustc-workspace-hack-Cargo.toml.patch b/packages/rust/src-tools-rustc-workspace-hack-Cargo.toml.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 473a89ed31..0000000000
--- a/packages/rust/src-tools-rustc-workspace-hack-Cargo.toml.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- a/src/tools/rustc-workspace-hack/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/src/tools/rustc-workspace-hack/Cargo.toml
-@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
- regex = { version = "1.5.6" }
- serde_json = { version = "1.0.31", features = ["raw_value", "unbounded_depth"] }
- syn = { version = "1", features = ['full', 'visit', 'visit-mut'] } # `visit-mut` required by Cargo via `gix`
-+syn_2 = { version = "2", features = ['full'], package = "syn" }
- url = { version = "2.0", features = ['serde'] }
- # Ensure default features of rand, which are disabled in some scenarios.
- rand = { version = "0.8.5" }