diff --git a/package/mpd/0002-src-lib-icu-fix-iconv-detection-when-libiconv-is-ins.patch b/package/mpd/0002-src-lib-icu-fix-iconv-detection-when-libiconv-is-ins.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 162999dc5f..0000000000
--- a/package/mpd/0002-src-lib-icu-fix-iconv-detection-when-libiconv-is-ins.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-From 3882a5a263caa681778a21b1f5f13a1b64536796 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: aeolio <git@aeolio.de>
-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:10:39 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] src/lib/icu: fix iconv() detection when libiconv is installed
-
-Signed-off-by: aeolio <git@aeolio.de>
-Upstream: https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/pull/1515
-Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <br015@umbiko.net>
----
- src/lib/icu/meson.build | 11 +++++++++--
- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/lib/icu/meson.build b/src/lib/icu/meson.build
-index 59215e704..972c1fda3 100644
---- a/src/lib/icu/meson.build
-+++ b/src/lib/icu/meson.build
-@@ -12,17 +12,23 @@ if is_windows
-   icu_sources += 'Win32.cxx'
- endif
- 
-+iconv_dep = []
- if icu_dep.found()
-   icu_sources += [
-     'Util.cxx',
-     'Init.cxx',
-   ]
- elif not get_option('iconv').disabled()
--  have_iconv = compiler.has_function('iconv', prefix : '#include <iconv.h>')
--  conf.set('HAVE_ICONV', have_iconv)
-+  # an installed iconv library will make the builtin iconv() unavailable,
-+  # so search for the library first and pass it as (possible) dependency
-+  iconv_dep = compiler.find_library('libiconv', required: false)
-+  have_iconv = compiler.has_function('iconv', 
-+    dependencies: iconv_dep, 
-+    prefix : '#include <iconv.h>')
-   if not have_iconv and get_option('iconv').enabled()
-     error('iconv() not available')
-   endif
-+  conf.set('HAVE_ICONV', have_iconv)
- endif
- 
- icu = static_library(
-@@ -31,6 +37,7 @@ icu = static_library(
-   include_directories: inc,
-   dependencies: [
-     icu_dep,
-+    iconv_dep,
-     fmt_dep,
-   ],
- )
--- 
-2.34.1
-
diff --git a/package/mpd/mpd.hash b/package/mpd/mpd.hash
index b09140abf5..353df25b39 100644
--- a/package/mpd/mpd.hash
+++ b/package/mpd/mpd.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256  cbc5928ee3ee1ef7ff6a58f6ba4afaee16c07e9eb42d0107bcc098010f4f26ed  mpd-0.23.6.tar.xz
+sha256  960dcbac717c388f5dcc4fd945e3af19a476f2b15f367e9653d4c7a948768211  mpd-0.23.7.tar.xz
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/mpd/mpd.mk b/package/mpd/mpd.mk
index 12da36098f..20c8f77fa8 100644
--- a/package/mpd/mpd.mk
+++ b/package/mpd/mpd.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 MPD_VERSION_MAJOR = 0.23
-MPD_VERSION = $(MPD_VERSION_MAJOR).6
+MPD_VERSION = $(MPD_VERSION_MAJOR).7
 MPD_SOURCE = mpd-$(MPD_VERSION).tar.xz
 MPD_SITE = https://www.musicpd.org/download/mpd/$(MPD_VERSION_MAJOR)
 MPD_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf boost fmt