diff --git a/package/irqbalance/0001-configure.ac-use-pkg-config-to-find-numa.patch b/package/irqbalance/0001-configure.ac-use-pkg-config-to-find-numa.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 751367ccfb..0000000000
--- a/package/irqbalance/0001-configure.ac-use-pkg-config-to-find-numa.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-From 274cb8ea470a10ce46b783e77784b0eb08cf20d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
-Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 23:26:01 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] configure.ac: use pkg-config to find numa
-
-Use pkg-config to find numa and fallback to current mechanism.
-Thanks to pkg-config, numa dependencies such as -latomic will be
-retrieved.
-
-Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
-[Upstream status: https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/pull/188]
----
- configure.ac | 9 ++++++++-
- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index c45b9ce..50c62ba 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -23,7 +23,14 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([numa.h])
- 
- AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getopt_long)
- 
--AC_CHECK_LIB(numa, numa_available)
-+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([NUMA], [numa], [has_numa=yes], [AC_CHECK_LIB(numa, numa_available)])
-+AS_IF([test "x$has_numa" = "xyes"], [
-+  AC_SUBST([NUMA_CFLAGS])
-+  AC_SUBST([NUMA_LIBS])
-+  LIBS="$LIBS $NUMA_LIBS"
-+  AC_SUBST([LIBS])
-+])
-+
- AC_CHECK_LIB(m, floor)
- 
- PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GLIB2], [glib-2.0], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([glib-2.0 is required])])
--- 
-2.30.2
-
diff --git a/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.hash b/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.hash
index 49118f8c7d..3dd83a017f 100644
--- a/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.hash
+++ b/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  2e7ddb9687a6a5cc1f41626659eac2ad9d6b5875629156b92f693bd404d8ae63  irqbalance-1.8.0.tar.gz
+sha256  883d3f6296f7e4a17e09dc2c91bd972e110fe574c119d9e45ec0c4e35c7317bb  irqbalance-1.9.0.tar.gz
 sha256  32b1062f7da84967e7019d01ab805935caa7ab7321a7ced0e30ebe75e5df1670  COPYING
diff --git a/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.mk b/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.mk
index 1efc0b7fa2..abd64e6b9e 100644
--- a/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.mk
+++ b/package/irqbalance/irqbalance.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-IRQBALANCE_VERSION = 1.8.0
+IRQBALANCE_VERSION = 1.9.0
 IRQBALANCE_SITE = $(call github,irqbalance,irqbalance,v$(IRQBALANCE_VERSION))
 IRQBALANCE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 IRQBALANCE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING