diff --git a/srcpkgs/synapse/patches/dependency-fix.patch b/srcpkgs/synapse/patches/dependency-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a51bd323cd..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/synapse/patches/dependency-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-The only purpose of the setuptools_rust runtime dependency is to work around
-poetry mishandling build-time dependencies. Eliminate it to avoid spurious
-errors when launching synapse.
-
---- a/pyproject.toml
-+++ b/pyproject.toml
-@@ -174,16 +174,6 @@
- # This is the most recent version of Pydantic with available on common distros.
- pydantic = ">=1.7.4"
- 
--# This is for building the rust components during "poetry install", which
--# currently ignores the `build-system.requires` directive (c.f.
--# https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6154). Both `pip install` and
--# `poetry build` do the right thing without this explicit dependency.
--#
--# This isn't really a dev-dependency, as `poetry install --no-dev` will fail,
--# but the alternative is to add it to the main list of deps where it isn't
--# needed.
--setuptools_rust = ">=1.3"
--
- 
- # Optional Dependencies
- # ---------------------
diff --git a/srcpkgs/synapse/patches/poetry-fix.patch b/srcpkgs/synapse/patches/poetry-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c723d74981..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/synapse/patches/poetry-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-From f1673866ed8a39d49e2caaa6f4255a3f696bc3b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: David Robertson <davidr@element.io>
-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 15:15:10 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Unpin build-system requirements, but impose an upper-bound
- (#14085)
-
-* Revert to prior build-system requirements
-
-This reverts #14080.
-
-* Use normalised extra name, which poetry-core 1.3 will generate anyway
-
-* Changelog
-
-* Upper bound build-system requirements
-
-* Remove upgrade note; expand changelog entry a little.
-
-* Fix typo in build-system comment
-
-Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
-
-Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
----
- changelog.d/14085.misc       |  1 +
- pyproject.toml               | 11 ++++++++---
- synapse/config/repository.py |  2 +-
- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
- create mode 100644 changelog.d/14085.misc
-
-diff --git a/changelog.d/14085.misc b/changelog.d/14085.misc
-new file mode 100644
-index 00000000000..2d2df70a64e
---- /dev/null
-+++ b/changelog.d/14085.misc
-@@ -0,0 +1 @@
-+Rename the `url_preview` extra to `url-preview`, for compatability with poetry-core 1.3.0 and [PEP 685](https://peps.python.org/pep-0685/). From-source installations using this extra will need to install using the new name.
-diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
-index 622d6a9e892..81b2659eb1f 100644
---- a/pyproject.toml
-+++ b/pyproject.toml
-@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ oidc = ["authlib"]
- # `systemd.journal.JournalHandler`, as is documented in
- # `contrib/systemd/log_config.yaml`.
- systemd = ["systemd-python"]
--url_preview = ["lxml"]
-+url-preview = ["lxml"]
- sentry = ["sentry-sdk"]
- opentracing = ["jaeger-client", "opentracing"]
- jwt = ["authlib"]
-@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ all = [
-     "pysaml2",
-     # oidc and jwt
-     "authlib",
--    # url_preview
-+    # url-preview
-     "lxml",
-     # sentry
-     "sentry-sdk",
-diff --git a/synapse/config/repository.py b/synapse/config/repository.py
-index 1033496bb43..e4759711ed9 100644
---- a/synapse/config/repository.py
-+++ b/synapse/config/repository.py
-@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ def read_config(self, config: JsonDict, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
-         )
-         self.url_preview_enabled = config.get("url_preview_enabled", False)
-         if self.url_preview_enabled:
--            check_requirements("url_preview")
-+            check_requirements("url-preview")
- 
-             proxy_env = getproxies_environment()
-             if "url_preview_ip_range_blacklist" not in config:
diff --git a/srcpkgs/synapse/template b/srcpkgs/synapse/template
index 85c3e1a68f0..b4f2d4f7d60 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/synapse/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/synapse/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'synapse'
 pkgname=synapse
-version=1.68.0
-revision=2
+version=1.69.0
+revision=1
 build_style=python3-pep517
 build_helper=rust
 make_check_target=tests
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ license="Apache-2.0"
 homepage="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matrix-org/synapse/develop/CHANGES.md"
 distfiles="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=3da9f788530905abc1c5db02f0cb2afd01b65463fe6962f1c4394ac153aad8ac
+checksum=6954fdee1b5ec27083ecafdbb8719133c147885348ceb7f7a081d4f97cee0026
 
 if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
 	makedepends+=" rust-std"