diff --git a/community/fio/PKGBUILD b/community/fio/PKGBUILD
index 565a219a5..edbbc0b05 100644
--- a/community/fio/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/fio/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #  - removed numactl dependency
 
 pkgname=fio
-pkgver=2.6
+pkgver=2.7
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing'
 arch=(i686 x86_64)
@@ -20,15 +20,12 @@ optdepends=(
   'gtk2: for gfio - fio GUI frontend' 
   'gnuplot: generating plots using fio_generate_plots'
 )
-source=(https://github.com/axboe/fio/archive/fio-$pkgver.zip
-        types.patch::https://github.com/axboe/fio/commit/d7bb6180f831091c468e5aa749b142efd5eddda4.patch)
-sha256sums=('54aafbc715d6e977136795190a5b09d07761153a859cfb17f3f161f1f1ae5ed7'
-            '7a28010acafdf8a3fd4b39ffd49ce935cc16fc89bfd4beb448ea9588cdb60031')
+source=(https://github.com/axboe/fio/archive/fio-$pkgver.zip)
+sha256sums=('0d7d4ae342150e5307209afde54be0946af384dd77338da96ef5961c54f7a47a')
 
 prepare() {
   cd fio-fio-$pkgver
 
-  patch -p1 < ../types.patch
   sed -e 's|#!/usr/bin/env python|#!/usr/bin/env python2|' -i tools/plot/fio2gnuplot
 }