diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 72a57db3a38..f8c63d69d4c 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.5 libmagick-6.9.9.0_1
 libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.5 libmagick-6.9.9.0_1
 libMagick++-6.Q16.so.8 libmagick-6.9.9.0_1
 libltdl.so.7 libltdl-2.2.6_1
-libpoppler.so.71 poppler-0.60.1_1
+libpoppler.so.72 poppler-0.61.1_1
 libpoppler-glib.so.8 poppler-glib-0.18.2_1
 libpoppler-cpp.so.0 poppler-cpp-0.18.2_1
 libpoppler-qt4.so.4 poppler-qt4-0.22.3_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/0001-do-not-install-function.cc-as-it-s-not-a-header.patch b/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/0001-do-not-install-function.cc-as-it-s-not-a-header.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ef234ca11b..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/0001-do-not-install-function.cc-as-it-s-not-a-header.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-From 369cd504e70e55378c6395355056fa8676679e56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: David Tardon <dtardon@redhat.com>
-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 08:07:35 +0200
-Subject: do not install Function.cc, as it's not a header
-
-
-diff --git CMakeLists.txt.orig CMakeLists.txt
-index 7485b2a..fe5911c 100644
---- CMakeLists.txt.orig
-+++ CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -572,7 +572,6 @@ if(ENABLE_XPDF_HEADERS)
-     poppler/FontEncodingTables.h
-     poppler/FontInfo.h
-     poppler/Form.h
--    poppler/Function.cc
-     poppler/Function.h
-     poppler/Gfx.h
-     poppler/GfxFont.h
--- 
-cgit v0.10.2
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/cmake.patch b/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/cmake.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a5f59b54bcc..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/poppler/patches/cmake.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- CMakeLists.txt.orig	2017-10-05 08:11:45.375039727 +0000
-+++ CMakeLists.txt	2017-10-05 08:12:51.950043161 +0000
-@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
- 
- set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/modules)
- 
-+set(CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS "-fPIC ${CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS}")
-+
- include(PopplerDefaults)
- include(PopplerMacros)
- include(MacroOptionalFindPackage)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/poppler/template b/srcpkgs/poppler/template
index 691fbf6e50a..fb2852f1aad 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/poppler/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/poppler/template
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # THIS PKG MUST BE SYNCHRONIZED WITH "srcpkgs/poppler-qt{4,5}".
 #
 pkgname=poppler
-version=0.60.1
-revision=2
+version=0.61.1
+revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 configure_args="-DENABLE_XPDF_HEADERS=on $(vopt_if gir -DENABLE_GLIB=on)
  -DENABLE_QT4=off -DENABLE_QT5=off"
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://poppler.freedesktop.org"
 distfiles="${homepage}/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
-checksum=19f185e05c3b59b4a1de2cec8ef39f5446035493d17bbed41d02fb9a77c8a93c
+checksum=1266096343f5163c1a585124e9a6d44474e1345de5cdfe55dc7b47357bcfcda9
 
 # Package build options
 build_options="gir"