diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index c245d05d9b102..912e3baa3cdfb 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -799,13 +799,6 @@ www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins:unstable
 # Seems to break all deps - API change?
 >=sci-libs/metis-5
 
-# Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> (18 Sep 2013)
-# Mask development releases of botan:
-# - causes many API breakages
-# - do not compile in some USE-flag combinations
-# - requires at least gcc 4.7(and possibly even 4.8 for some features)
->=dev-libs/botan-1.11.0
-
 # Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org> (17 Jul 2013)
 # Upstream next versions
 >=sys-boot/raspberrypi-firmware-1_pre