diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/apostrophe/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/apostrophe/default.nix
index dd8757d0c17b..5d435fa68231 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/apostrophe/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/apostrophe/default.nix
@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ let
 
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "apostrophe";
-  version = "2.3";
+  version = "2.4";
 
   src = fetchFromGitLab {
     owner  = "somas";
     repo   = pname;
     domain = "gitlab.gnome.org";
     rev    = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1ggrbbnhbnf6p3hs72dww3c9m1rvr4znggmvwcpj6i8v1a3kycnb";
+    sha256 = "1qzy3zhi18wf42m034s8kcmx9gl05j620x3hf6rnycq2fvy7g4gz";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja cmake pkg-config desktop-file-utils
@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   postPatch = ''
     patchShebangs --build build-aux/meson_post_install.py
-
-    # get rid of unused distributed dependencies
-    rm -r ${pname}/pylocales
   '';
 
   preFixup = ''