diff --git a/packages/devel/mold/package.mk b/packages/devel/mold/package.mk
index 25b283088b..0802cea170 100644
--- a/packages/devel/mold/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/mold/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2022-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="mold"
-PKG_VERSION="1.5.1"
-PKG_SHA256="ec94aa74758f1bc199a732af95c6304ec98292b87f2f4548ce8436a7c5b054a1"
+PKG_VERSION="1.6.0"
+PKG_SHA256="59cd3ea1a2a5fb50d0d97faddd8bff4c7e71054a576c00a87b17f56ecbd88729"
 PKG_LICENSE="AGPL-3.0-or-later"
 PKG_SITE="https://github.com/rui314/mold"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/rui314/mold/archive/refs/tags/v${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/mold/patches/mold-999.01-PR740-allow-custom-mold-binary-install-path.patch b/packages/devel/mold/patches/mold-999.01-PR740-allow-custom-mold-binary-install-path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ecca3b06e..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/mold/patches/mold-999.01-PR740-allow-custom-mold-binary-install-path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-From f7f2ef6182d058f7c58401d9278aa3136cb996f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: SupervisedThinking <supervisedthinking@gmail.com>
-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:49:57 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] CMakeLists: allow custom mold binary install path
-
-- https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/install.html
-- ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR} defaults to bin if not set
----
- CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 7136cf2b..4542f915 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ if(BUILD_TESTING)
- endif()
- 
- if(NOT CMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RULES)
--  install(TARGETS mold RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
-+  install(TARGETS mold RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR})
-   install(FILES LICENSE DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR})
-   install(FILES docs/mold.1 DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR}/man1/)
-   install(CODE "