diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index b3dd1953a8..b0690eda58 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -984,7 +984,6 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/rxvt-unicode-escape-sequences.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/scheme48-tests.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/scotch-test-threading.patch		\
-  %D%/packages/patches/screen-fix-info-syntax-error.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/sdl-libx11-1.6.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/seq24-rename-mutex.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/slim-session.patch			\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/screen-fix-info-syntax-error.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/screen-fix-info-syntax-error.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ee9091daa..0000000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/screen-fix-info-syntax-error.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-Fix errors when building the info manual:
-
-[...]
-./screen.texinfo:5799: unknown command `suse'
-./screen.texinfo:5800: unknown command `deuxchevaux'
-make[2]: *** [Makefile:31: screen.info] Error 1
-[...]
-
-Patch copied from upstream source repository:
-
-http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=a7d2f9e6ecfa794dd0bd3dbeaf6780c88a6f3152
-
-From a7d2f9e6ecfa794dd0bd3dbeaf6780c88a6f3152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Andreas Stieger <astieger@suse.com>
-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:23:01 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] fix texinfo syntax errors
-
-thanks to Andreas Stieger <astieger@suse.com>
----
- src/doc/screen.texinfo | 4 ++--
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/doc/screen.texinfo b/src/doc/screen.texinfo
-index bc4cbae..aadad33 100644
---- a/doc/screen.texinfo
-+++ b/doc/screen.texinfo
-@@ -5795,7 +5795,7 @@ and Alexander Naumov <alexander_naumov@@opensuse.org>.
- Contributors @*
- ============
- 
--@example
-+@verbatim
-      Thomas Renninger <treen@suse.com>,
-      Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>,
-      Ken Beal <kbeal@@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com>,
-@@ -5826,7 +5826,7 @@ Contributors @*
-      Jason Merrill <jason@@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>,
-      Johannes Zellner <johannes@@zellner.org>,
-      Pablo Averbuj <pablo@@averbuj.com>.
--@end example
-+@end verbatim
- 
- @noindent
- Version @*
--- 
-cgit v1.0-41-gc330
-
diff --git a/gnu/packages/screen.scm b/gnu/packages/screen.scm
index 49584662b1..af0079be20 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/screen.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/screen.scm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
 ;;; Copyright © 2013 Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
-;;; Copyright © 2015 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2015, 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
@@ -37,14 +37,13 @@ (define-module (gnu packages screen)
 (define-public screen
   (package
     (name "screen")
-    (version "4.5.1")
+    (version "4.6.0")
     (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/screen/screen-"
                                  version ".tar.gz"))
-             (patches (search-patches "screen-fix-info-syntax-error.patch"))
              (sha256
-              (base32 "0bbv16gpxrh64sn4bvjy3qjy7jsxjlqlilyysin02fwnvla23nwp"))))
+              (base32 "1m7yd2bs1i623kk27nfy3qa2mgjp5qjqxwj5qz21r51ycmmp0cwl"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (native-inputs
      `(("makeinfo" ,texinfo)))