diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-jupyter_client/patches/test_session.patch b/srcpkgs/python3-jupyter_client/patches/test_session.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2febffe28cf..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-jupyter_client/patches/test_session.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-encoding option is removed from msgpack.unpackb
-See: https://pypi.org/project/msgpack/
-diff --git jupyter_client/tests/test_session.py jupyter_client/tests/test_session.py
-index 82d63df..d8636ff 100644
---- jupyter_client/tests/test_session.py
-+++ jupyter_client/tests/test_session.py
-@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ class TestSession(SessionTestCase):
- 
-         session = ss.Session(
-             pack=msgpack.packb,
--            unpack=lambda buf: msgpack.unpackb(buf, encoding='utf8'),
-+            unpack=lambda buf: msgpack.unpackb(buf),
-         )
-         self._datetime_test(session)
- 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-jupyter_client/template b/srcpkgs/python3-jupyter_client/template
index 9dc13b8a261..6c27403e678 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-jupyter_client/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-jupyter_client/template
@@ -1,31 +1,22 @@
 # Template file for 'python3-jupyter_client'
 pkgname=python3-jupyter_client
-version=6.1.0
-revision=2
+# delay 6.2 until jupyter/jupyter_console#241 is fixed
+version=6.1.12
+revision=1
 wrksrc="jupyter_client-${version}"
 build_style=python3-module
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
-depends="python3-setuptools python3-traitlets python3-jupyter_core>=4.6.0
- python3-pyzmq>=13 python3-dateutil>=2.1 python3-tornado>=3.5
- python3-simplejson"
-checkdepends="python3-pytest python3-ipython_ipykernel
- python3-setuptools python3-traitlets python3-jupyter_core
- python3-pyzmq python3-dateutil python3-tornado
- python3-simplejson python3-msgpack python3-Sphinx"
+depends="python3-traitlets python3-jupyter_core python3-pyzmq
+ python3-dateutil python3-tornado python3-nest_asyncio"
 short_desc="Jupyter protocol client APIs"
 maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
 license="BSD-3-Clause"
 homepage="https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_client"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/j/jupyter_client/jupyter_client-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=61429e7d2c4b385135d31054944dd3f23a1c6affb0ca3d4328d42fc9ba82b7f5
+checksum=c4bca1d0846186ca8be97f4d2fa6d2bae889cce4892a167ffa1ba6bd1f73e782
 conflicts="python-jupyter_client<=5.2.4_2"
-
-do_check() {
-	# test_install_kernel_spec_prefix is problematic
-	# The test is fine when run in-tree,
-	# but it's failing in ./xbps-src check
-	pytest -k 'not test_install_kernel_spec_prefix'
-}
+# checks create a cycle with python3-jupyter_core and python3-ipython_ipykernel
+make_check=no
 
 post_install() {
 	vlicense COPYING.md LICENSE