diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bitstring/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bitstring/default.nix
index 4c612b177a7c..791620a77c08 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bitstring/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bitstring/default.nix
@@ -1,21 +1,25 @@
 {
   lib,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  ocaml,
   buildDunePackage,
   stdlib-shims,
 }:
 
 buildDunePackage (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "bitstring";
-  version = "4.1.1";
-
-  duneVersion = "3";
+  version = if lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "5.3" then "5.0.2" else "4.1.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "xguerin";
     repo = "bitstring";
-    rev = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-eO7/S9PoMybZPnQQ+q9qbqKpYO4Foc9OjW4uiwwNds8=";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash =
+      {
+        "5.0.2" = "sha256-MN16b37EM5NIZcvd59Y9Bd+YgcM62RdhrgCskd21tSg=";
+        "4.1.1" = "sha256-eO7/S9PoMybZPnQQ+q9qbqKpYO4Foc9OjW4uiwwNds8=";
+      }
+      ."${finalAttrs.version}";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ stdlib-shims ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bitstring/ppx.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bitstring/ppx.nix
index 9215c8293d28..826e01501fb2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bitstring/ppx.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bitstring/ppx.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 {
   lib,
   buildDunePackage,
-  fetchpatch,
-  ocaml,
   bitstring,
   ppxlib,
   ounit,
@@ -12,21 +10,15 @@ buildDunePackage {
   pname = "ppx_bitstring";
   inherit (bitstring) version src;
 
-  patches = lib.optional (lib.versionAtLeast ppxlib.version "0.36") (fetchpatch {
-    url = "https://github.com/xguerin/bitstring/commit/b42d4924cbb5ec5fd5309e6807852b63f456f35d.patch";
-    hash = "sha256-wtpSnGOzIUTmB3LhyHGopecy7F/5SYFOwaR6eReV+6g=";
-  });
-
   buildInputs = [
     bitstring
     ppxlib
   ];
 
-  doCheck = lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "4.08";
+  doCheck = true;
   checkInputs = [ ounit ];
 
   meta = bitstring.meta // {
     description = "Bitstrings and bitstring matching for OCaml - PPX extension";
-    broken = lib.versionOlder ppxlib.version "0.18.0";
   };
 }