diff --git a/dev-libs/openssl/files/openssl-3.5.3-revert-version-change.patch b/dev-libs/openssl/files/openssl-3.5.3-revert-version-change.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e310e906798ba..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/openssl/files/openssl-3.5.3-revert-version-change.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/28227
-https://github.com/openssl/project/issues/1621
-https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/28603
-https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/be0013641917730dc7ea4a769731d0e083796164
-
-From be0013641917730dc7ea4a769731d0e083796164 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:14:13 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER to always have zero status bits
-
-The documentation suggested that they were always zero, while the
-implementation in <openssl/opensslv.h> suggested that it could be
-0xf in OpenSSL releases...  which (almost) never happened because
-of a bug in said implementation.
-
-Therefore, we solidify that the status bits are indeed always zero,
-at least in all OpenSSL 3 versions.
-
-Resolves: https://github.com/openssl/project/issues/1621
-
-Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <ppzgs1@gmail.com>
-Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
-(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/28603)
-
-(cherry picked from commit 60c4feacce6faf0e98167dc2ab2a1c2e85882049)
----
- doc/man3/OpenSSL_version.pod  | 7 +++++++
- include/openssl/opensslv.h.in | 4 ++--
- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/doc/man3/OpenSSL_version.pod b/doc/man3/OpenSSL_version.pod
-index e5dff33dcdda2..fc30dc0737865 100644
---- a/doc/man3/OpenSSL_version.pod
-+++ b/doc/man3/OpenSSL_version.pod
-@@ -256,6 +256,13 @@ L<crypto(7)>
- The macros and functions described here were added in OpenSSL 3.0,
- except for OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER and OpenSSL_version_num().
- 
-+=head1 BUGS
-+
-+There was a discrepancy between this manual and commentary + code
-+in F<< <openssl/opensslv.h> >>, where the latter suggested that the
-+four least significant bits of B<OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER> could be
-+C<0x0f> in released OpenSSL versions.
-+
- =head1 COPYRIGHT
- 
- Copyright 2018-2022 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
-diff --git a/include/openssl/opensslv.h.in b/include/openssl/opensslv.h.in
-index e547281ff527f..69b9caacf4dce 100644
---- a/include/openssl/opensslv.h.in
-+++ b/include/openssl/opensslv.h.in
-@@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ extern "C" {
- 
- # define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT "OpenSSL {- "$config{full_version} $config{release_date}" -}"
- 
--/* Synthesize OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER with the layout 0xMNN00PPSL */
-+/* Synthesize OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER with the layout 0xMNN00PP0L */
- # define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER          \
-     ( (OPENSSL_VERSION_MAJOR<<28)        \
-       |(OPENSSL_VERSION_MINOR<<20)       \
-       |(OPENSSL_VERSION_PATCH<<4)        \
--      |{- @config{prerelease} ? "0x0L" : "0xfL" -} )
-+      |0x0L )
- 
- # ifdef  __cplusplus
- }