diff --git a/gnu-system.am b/gnu-system.am
index 2eae1483cc..987c5a6b0a 100644
--- a/gnu-system.am
+++ b/gnu-system.am
@@ -310,8 +310,6 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   gnu/packages/patches/perl-no-sys-dirs.patch			\
   gnu/packages/patches/plotutils-libpng-jmpbuf.patch		\
   gnu/packages/patches/procps-make-3.82.patch			\
-  gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-test-timeouts.patch		\
-  gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-volume-test.patch		\
   gnu/packages/patches/python-fix-dbm.patch			\
   gnu/packages/patches/qemu-make-4.0.patch			\
   gnu/packages/patches/qemu-multiple-smb-shares.patch		\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-test-timeouts.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-test-timeouts.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ab818ad0aa..0000000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-test-timeouts.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-Increase the timeout of the thread test.  Hydra was intermittedly
-failing this test due to premature timeout, and slower machines
-consistently fail.
-
-Patch by Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>.
-
---- pulseaudio/src/tests/thread-test.c.orig	2012-09-26 07:27:01.000000000 -0400
-+++ pulseaudio/src/tests/thread-test.c	2013-10-31 22:53:23.224000184 -0400
-@@ -152,6 +152,10 @@
-     s = suite_create("Thread");
-     tc = tcase_create("thread");
-     tcase_add_test(tc, thread_test);
-+    /* the default timeout is too small,
-+     * set it to a reasonable large one.
-+     */
-+    tcase_set_timeout(tc, 60 * 60);
-     suite_add_tcase(s, tc);
- 
-     sr = srunner_create(s);
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-volume-test.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-volume-test.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2cfa0cd6ca..0000000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-volume-test.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-Fix seemingly random failures of 'volume-test' in particular on 32-bit
-machines.  See <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72374> for
-details.
-
-From 27e47c72a25846e107b6e450c3a1480a2742382e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen@linux.intel.com>
-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 07:21:22 +0000
-Subject: volume-test: Increase the allowed number of rouding errors
-
-BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72374
----
-diff --git a/src/tests/volume-test.c b/src/tests/volume-test.c
-index a2daf3e..1ab0b5c 100644
---- a/src/tests/volume-test.c
-+++ b/src/tests/volume-test.c
-@@ -138,7 +138,13 @@ START_TEST (volume_test) {
-     pa_log("max deviation: %lu n=%lu", (unsigned long) md, (unsigned long) mdn);
- 
-     fail_unless(md <= 1);
--    fail_unless(mdn <= 251);
-+
-+    /* mdn counts the times there were rounding errors during the test. The
-+     * number of rounding errors seems to vary slightly depending on the
-+     * hardware. The original limit was 251 errors, but it was increased to 253
-+     * when the test was failing on Tanu's laptop.
-+     * See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72374 */
-+    fail_unless(mdn <= 253);
- }
- END_TEST
diff --git a/gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm b/gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm
index 8bf48c2a89..db7e752ee6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects.")
 (define pulseaudio
   (package
     (name "pulseaudio")
-    (version "4.0")
+    (version "5.0")
     (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append
@@ -142,10 +142,7 @@ parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects.")
                    version ".tar.xz"))
              (sha256
               (base32
-               "1bndz4l8jxyq3zq128gzp3gryxl6yjs66j2y1d7yabw2n5mv7kim"))
-             (patches (map search-patch
-                           '("pulseaudio-test-timeouts.patch"
-                             "pulseaudio-volume-test.patch")))))
+               "0fgrr8v7yfh0byhzdv4c87v9lkj8g7gpjm8r9xrbvpa92a5kmhcr"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (arguments
      `(#:configure-flags '("--localstatedir=/var" ;"--sysconfdir=/etc"