diff --git a/extra/qemu/PKGBUILD b/extra/qemu/PKGBUILD
index 5e164c8d8..91fdd69de 100644
--- a/extra/qemu/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/qemu/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,23 +12,21 @@ pkgbase=qemu
 pkgname=(qemu qemu-headless qemu-arch-extra qemu-headless-arch-extra
          qemu-block-{iscsi,gluster} qemu-guest-agent)
 pkgdesc="A generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer"
-pkgver=6.0.0
-pkgrel=3
+pkgver=6.1.0
+pkgrel=1
 arch=(x86_64)
 license=(GPL2 LGPL2.1)
 url="https://wiki.qemu.org/"
 _headlessdeps=(gnutls libpng libaio numactl libnfs
                lzo snappy curl vde2 libcap-ng spice libcacard usbredir libslirp
-               libssh zstd liburing ndctl dtc fuse3)
+               libssh zstd liburing ndctl dtc fuse3 libbpf)
 depends=(virglrenderer sdl2 vte3 libpulse libjack.so brltty "${_headlessdeps[@]}")
-makedepends=(spice-protocol python libiscsi glusterfs python-sphinx xfsprogs ninja)
+makedepends=(spice-protocol python libiscsi glusterfs python-sphinx python-sphinx_rtd_theme xfsprogs ninja)
 source=(https://download.qemu.org/qemu-$pkgver.tar.xz{,.sig}
-        build-most-modules-statically-hack.diff
         qemu-guest-agent.service
         65-kvm.rules)
-sha512sums=('ee3ff00aebec4d8891d2ff6dabe4e667e510b2a4fe3f6190aa34673a91ea32dcd2db2e9bf94c2f1bf05aa79788f17cfbbedc6027c0988ea08a92587b79ee05e4'
+sha512sums=('3378ae21c75b77ee6a759827f1fcf7b2a50a0fef07e3b0e89117108022a8d8655fa977e4d65596f4f24f7c735c6594d44b0c6f69732ea4465e88a7406b1d5d3c'
             'SKIP'
-            '8721068fb968dbae62ceff71aa46eb4c2452c7fde95b87396b439f2f927ea84d2ee2c512264a9f28a5ccaf3096aacce052cebf209aaffd62a201b5bafb512002'
             '269c0f0bacbd06a3d817fde02dce26c99d9f55c9e3b74bb710bd7e5cdde7a66b904d2eb794c8a605bf9305e4e3dee261a6e7d4ec9d9134144754914039f176e4'
             'bdf05f99407491e27a03aaf845b7cc8acfa2e0e59968236f10ffc905e5e3d5e8569df496fd71c887da2b5b8d1902494520c7da2d3a8258f7fd93a881dd610c99')
 validpgpkeys=('CEACC9E15534EBABB82D3FA03353C9CEF108B584') # Michael Roth <flukshun@gmail.com>
@@ -43,11 +41,6 @@ esac
 prepare() {
   mkdir build-{full,headless}
   mkdir -p extra-arch-{full,headless}/usr/{bin,share/qemu}
-
-  cd qemu-$pkgver
-  # https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1910696
-  # the patch comes from https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/-/blob/master/debian/patches/build-most-modules-statically-hack.diff
-  patch -p1 < ../build-most-modules-statically-hack.diff
 }
 
 build() {