diff --git a/config.h.in b/config.h.in
index 9aed4ad566..01f1cfd941 100644
--- a/config.h.in
+++ b/config.h.in
@@ -510,9 +510,6 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `uv_handle_set_data' function. */
 #undef HAVE_UV_HANDLE_SET_DATA
 
-/* Define to 1 if you have the `uv_import' function. */
-#undef HAVE_UV_IMPORT
-
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `uv_sleep' function. */
 #undef HAVE_UV_SLEEP
 
diff --git a/config.h.win32 b/config.h.win32
index 4e7137510e..e3dae16687 100644
--- a/config.h.win32
+++ b/config.h.win32
@@ -377,13 +377,10 @@ typedef __int64 off_t;
 #define SSL_CTX_UP_REF 1
 
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `uv_handle_get_data' function. */
-@HAVE_UV_HANDLE_GET_DATA@
+#define HAVE_UV_HANDLE_GET_DATA 1
 
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `uv_handle_set_data' function. */
-@HAVE_UV_HANDLE_SET_DATA@
-
-/* Define to 1 if you have the `uv_import' function. */
-@HAVE_UV_IMPORT@
+#define HAVE_UV_HANDLE_SET_DATA 1
 
 /*
  * Define to nothing if C supports flexible array members, and to 1 if it does
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 2ca944e2a1..c5f803da2c 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -16333,7 +16333,7 @@ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $LIBUV_CFLAGS"
 LIBS="$LDFLAGS $LIBUV_LIBS"
 # Those functions are only provided in newer versions of libuv, we'll be emulating them
 # for now
-for ac_func in uv_handle_get_data uv_handle_set_data uv_import uv_udp_connect uv_translate_sys_error uv_sleep
+for ac_func in uv_handle_get_data uv_handle_set_data uv_udp_connect uv_translate_sys_error uv_sleep
 do :
   as_ac_var=`$as_echo "ac_cv_func_$ac_func" | $as_tr_sh`
 ac_fn_c_check_func "$LINENO" "$ac_func" "$as_ac_var"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 41f084753b..3497343c1e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $LIBUV_CFLAGS"
 LIBS="$LDFLAGS $LIBUV_LIBS"
 # Those functions are only provided in newer versions of libuv, we'll be emulating them
 # for now
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([uv_handle_get_data uv_handle_set_data uv_import uv_udp_connect uv_translate_sys_error uv_sleep])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([uv_handle_get_data uv_handle_set_data uv_udp_connect uv_translate_sys_error uv_sleep])
 AX_RESTORE_FLAGS([libuv])
 
 #
diff --git a/util/copyrights b/util/copyrights
index b54b4688d0..4a4ed4ca64 100644
--- a/util/copyrights
+++ b/util/copyrights
@@ -2524,4 +2524,3 @@
 ./win32utils/Configure				PERL	2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021
 ./win32utils/GeoIP.diff				X	2013,2018,2019,2020,2021
 ./win32utils/bind9.sln.in			X	2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020
-./win32utils/libuv.diff				X	2020,2021
diff --git a/win32utils/Configure b/win32utils/Configure
index aa2e8159b8..a0b27e8855 100644
--- a/win32utils/Configure
+++ b/win32utils/Configure
@@ -196,9 +196,6 @@ my @substdefh = ("CONFIGARGS",
                  "WITH_IDN",
                  "CPU_RELAX",
                  "VALIDATION_DEFAULT",
-                 "HAVE_UV_HANDLE_GET_DATA",
-                 "HAVE_UV_HANDLE_SET_DATA",
-                 "HAVE_UV_IMPORT",
     );
 
 # for platform.h
@@ -1231,13 +1228,6 @@ if ($use_libuv eq "auto") {
     if ($use_libuv eq "auto") {
         die "can't find an libuv built directory at sibling root\n";
     }
-
-    # When a libuv version exposing uv_import() and uv_export() is released, the
-    # following three config.h macros will need to be conditionally defined for
-    # that libuv version and all later ones.
-    # $configdefh{"HAVE_UV_HANDLE_SET_DATA"} = 1;
-    # $configdefh{"HAVE_UV_HANDLE_GET_DATA"} = 1;
-    # $configdefh{"HAVE_UV_IMPORT"} = 1;
 }
 # falls into (so no else)
 if ($use_libuv eq "yes") {
@@ -1264,12 +1254,6 @@ if ($use_libuv eq "yes") {
     $configinc{"LIBUV_INC"} = "$libuv_inc";
     $configlib{"LIBUV_LIB"} = "$libuv_lib";
     $configdll{"LIBUV_DLL"} = "$libuv_dll";
-    # When a libuv version exposing uv_import() and uv_export() is released, the
-    # following three config.h macros will need to be conditionally defined for
-    # that libuv version and all later ones.
-    # $configdefh{"HAVE_UV_HANDLE_SET_DATA"} = 1;
-    # $configdefh{"HAVE_UV_HANDLE_GET_DATA"} = 1;
-    # $configdefh{"HAVE_UV_IMPORT"} = 1;
 }
 
 # with-openssl
diff --git a/win32utils/libuv.diff b/win32utils/libuv.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 41f3796ccc..0000000000
--- a/win32utils/libuv.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-To make TCP listening properly multithreaded, we need to have the
-uv_export() and uv_import() functions that were removed from libuv.
-The alternative is passing sockets over IPC, which is complicated and
-error prone.
-
-To make it simple, we export two internal functions from libuv; they will
-be used in lib/isc/netmgr/uv-compat.c by our versions of the uv_export()
-and uv_import() functions.
-
-diff --git a/src/win/internal.h b/src/win/internal.h
-index 058ddb8e..a9dc4168 100644
---- a/src/win/internal.h
-+++ b/src/win/internal.h
-@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ void uv_process_tcp_connect_req(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_tcp_t* handle,
- void uv_tcp_close(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_tcp_t* tcp);
- void uv_tcp_endgame(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_tcp_t* handle);
- 
--int uv__tcp_xfer_export(uv_tcp_t* handle,
-+UV_EXTERN int uv__tcp_xfer_export(uv_tcp_t* handle,
-                         int pid,
-                         uv__ipc_socket_xfer_type_t* xfer_type,
-                         uv__ipc_socket_xfer_info_t* xfer_info);
--int uv__tcp_xfer_import(uv_tcp_t* tcp,
-+UV_EXTERN int uv__tcp_xfer_import(uv_tcp_t* tcp,
-                         uv__ipc_socket_xfer_type_t xfer_type,
-                         uv__ipc_socket_xfer_info_t* xfer_info);
-