diff --git a/ruby-3.2.yaml b/ruby-3.2.yaml
index c90f7508614..70a5e013feb 100644
--- a/ruby-3.2.yaml
+++ b/ruby-3.2.yaml
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ pipeline:
       tag: v${{vars.underscore-package-version}}
       expected-commit: 63aeb018eb1cc0f7b00f955980711fd1bd94af7f
 
-  - uses: patch
-    with:
-      patches: update-rexml-3.3.5.patch
-
   - name: Generate and Configure
     runs: |
       ./autogen.sh
diff --git a/ruby-3.2/update-rexml-3.3.5.patch b/ruby-3.2/update-rexml-3.3.5.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e46c121d257..00000000000
--- a/ruby-3.2/update-rexml-3.3.5.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/gems/bundled_gems b/gems/bundled_gems
-index 362dc23fa0..da200895c2 100644
---- a/gems/bundled_gems
-+++ b/gems/bundled_gems
-@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ minitest        5.16.3  https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest
- power_assert    2.0.3   https://github.com/ruby/power_assert
- rake            13.0.6  https://github.com/ruby/rake
- test-unit       3.5.7   https://github.com/test-unit/test-unit
--rexml           3.3.2   https://github.com/ruby/rexml
-+rexml           3.3.6   https://github.com/ruby/rexml
- rss             0.2.9   https://github.com/ruby/rss
- net-ftp         0.2.1   https://github.com/ruby/net-ftp
- net-imap        0.3.4.1   https://github.com/ruby/net-imap