diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/default.nix
index 64843febdd6b..8a8e4524c39f 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/default.nix
@@ -38,14 +38,8 @@ in {
 
   tomcat8 = common {
     versionMajor = "8";
-    versionMinor = "0.53";
-    sha256 = "1ymp5n6xjqzpqjjlwql195v8r5fsmry7nfax46bafkjw8b24g80r";
-  };
-
-  tomcat85 = common {
-    versionMajor = "8";
-    versionMinor = "5.42";
-    sha256 = "1d90abwwvl0ghr0g0drk48j37wr2zgw74vws9z2rshyzrwgbvgp3";
+    versionMinor = "5.51";
+    sha256 = "1zmg0hi4nw4y5sknd0jgq9lb3bncjjscay5fdiiq3qh5cs0wsvl3";
   };
 
   tomcat9 = common {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 3a504f20d944..8dcc12236b61 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   tex-gyre-schola-math = tex-gyre-math.schola; # added 2018-04-03
   tex-gyre-termes-math = tex-gyre-math.termes; # added 2018-04-03
   tftp_hpa = tftp-hpa; # added 2015-04-03
+  tomcat85 = tomcat8; # added 2020-03-11
   torbrowser = tor-browser-bundle-bin; # added 2017-04-05
   transporter = throw "transporter has been removed. It was archived upstream, so it's considered abandoned.";
   trang = jing-trang; # added 2018-04-25
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 444b02e5513e..ac2fe5c4674c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16009,7 +16009,6 @@ in
   inherit (callPackages ../servers/http/tomcat { })
     tomcat7
     tomcat8
-    tomcat85
     tomcat9;
 
   tomcat_mysql_jdbc = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/jdbc/mysql { };