diff --git a/package/michiel/ruby/openssl.patch b/package/michiel/ruby/openssl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 79ea5b03b..000000000
--- a/package/michiel/ruby/openssl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
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-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/michiel/ruby/openssl.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
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-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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-# version.
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-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---- ./ext/digest/md5/md5ossl.c.orig	2005-07-18 16:11:09.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./ext/digest/md5/md5ossl.c	2005-07-18 16:23:18.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
- /* $Id: md5ossl.c,v 1.2 2003/01/06 11:47:53 knu Exp $ */
- 
-+#include <sys/types.h>
-+
- #include "md5ossl.h"
- #include <sys/types.h>
- #include <stdio.h>
---- ./ext/digest/sha1/sha1ossl.c.orig	2005-07-18 16:11:45.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./ext/digest/sha1/sha1ossl.c	2005-07-18 16:23:32.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
- /* $Id: sha1ossl.c,v 1.1 2002/09/26 17:44:33 knu Exp $ */
- 
-+#include <sys/types.h>
-+
- #include "sha1ossl.h"
- #include "defs.h"
- #include <assert.h>
---- ./ext/digest/rmd160/rmd160ossl.c.orig	2005-07-18 16:12:11.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./ext/digest/rmd160/rmd160ossl.c	2005-07-18 16:23:26.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
- /* $Id: rmd160ossl.c,v 1.1 2002/09/26 17:26:46 knu Exp $ */
- 
-+#include <sys/types.h>
-+
- #include "rmd160ossl.h"
- #include "defs.h"
- #include <assert.h>
---- ./ext/openssl/ossl_x509store.c.orig	2005-07-18 16:13:49.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./ext/openssl/ossl_x509store.c	2005-07-18 16:22:03.000000000 +0200
-@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@
- 
-     if(NIL_P(time)) {
- 	GetX509StCtx(self, store);
--	store->flags &= ~X509_V_FLAG_USE_CHECK_TIME;
-+	store->param->flags &= ~X509_V_FLAG_USE_CHECK_TIME;
-     }
-     else {
- 	long t = NUM2LONG(rb_Integer(time));
diff --git a/package/michiel/ruby/ruby.desc b/package/michiel/ruby/ruby.desc
index a9a51def8..2e98b3836 100644
--- a/package/michiel/ruby/ruby.desc
+++ b/package/michiel/ruby/ruby.desc
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.8.2
+[V] 1.8.4
 [P] X -?---5---9 124.000
 
-[D] 3923964004 ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/
+[D] 1927155766 ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/