diff --git a/recipes-common/rbus/files/gtest_libraries_check.patch b/recipes-common/rbus/files/gtest_libraries_check.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 843835c8..00000000
--- a/recipes-common/rbus/files/gtest_libraries_check.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-###############################################################################
-Date: Tuesday 24 January 22:10:00 UTC 2023
-Subject: With newer cmake-3.22, the FindGTest.cmake module is
-       slightly differenct than older cmake-3.16 module. We don't have
-       GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR set in latest cmake GTest module where as
-       GTEST_LIBRARIES and GTEST_INCLUDE_DIRS are set on both older and new modules.
-Source: Comcast
-License: NA
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-Signed-off-by: Arjun <arjun_daasuramdass@comcast.com>
-###############################################################################
---- a/unittests/CMakeLists.txt.orig	2023-01-24 08:28:22.536357264 +0000
-+++ b/unittests/CMakeLists.txt	2023-01-24 08:31:39.383571780 +0000
-@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
- 
- string(REPLACE "-Werror" "" CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG})
- string(REPLACE "-Werror" "" CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE})
--if (NOT GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR)
-+if (NOT GTEST_LIBRARIES)
-     message("Warning GTest wasn't found. GTest library will be built.")
-     include(ExternalProject)
-     #include(GoogleTest)
-@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
- 
-     include_directories("${source_dir}/googletest/include" "${source_dir}/googlemock/include")
- else ()
--    include_directories("${GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR}")
-+    include_directories("GTEST_INCLUDE_DIRS")
- endif()
- 
- # someone needs to figure out how to run this stuff under valgrind
-@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
-   main.cpp)
- add_dependencies(rbus_gtest.bin rbus)
- 
--if (NOT GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR)
-+if (NOT GTEST_LIBRARIES)
-     target_link_libraries(rbus_gtest.bin rbus libgtest libgmock gcov)
- else ()
-     target_link_libraries(rbus_gtest.bin rbus gtest gcov)
diff --git a/recipes-common/rbus/rbus.bb b/recipes-common/rbus/rbus.bb
index 561841fc..05da58de 100644
--- a/recipes-common/rbus/rbus.bb
+++ b/recipes-common/rbus/rbus.bb
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=ed63516ecab9f06e324238dd2b259549"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rdkcentral/rbus.git;branch=release"
-SRC_URI:append = " file://gtest_libraries_check.patch"
 
-SRCREV = "ce10ff2246632f232aa91d6723cfae123972ebe1"
+SRCREV = "b193ae44c976fe8dd31d48a91f45ac7791a292f0"
 SRCREV_FORMAT = "base"
 
-PV ?= "2.5.0"
-PR ?= "r1"
+PV ?= "2.6.0"
+PR ?= "r0"
 
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MIDDLEWARE_ARCH}"
 
@@ -31,10 +30,9 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE += " -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release "
 EXTRA_OECMAKE += " -DMSG_ROUNDTRIP_TIME=ON -DENABLE_RDKLOGGER=ON"
 
 #Gtest Specific Enablements
-EXTRA_OECMAKE += " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'gtestapp', '-DENABLE_UNIT_TESTING=ON', '', d)}"
-DEPENDS:append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'gtestapp', ' gtest ', ' ', d)}"
-DEPENDS:append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'RBUS_ENABLE_TESTAPPS', ' benchmark ', ' ', d)}"
-EXTRA_OECMAKE += " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'RBUS_ENABLE_TESTAPPS', '-DBUILD_RBUS_SAMPLE_APPS=ON -DBUILD_RBUS_TEST_APPS=ON -DBUILD_RBUS_BENCHMARK_TEST=ON', '-DBUILD_RBUS_SAMPLE_APPS=OFF -DBUILD_RBUS_TEST_APPS=OFF -DBUILD_RBUS_BENCHMARK_TEST=OFF', d)}"
+EXTRA_OECMAKE += " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'gtestapp', '-DENABLE_UNIT_TESTING=ON -DBUILD_RBUS_BENCHMARK_TEST=ON', '', d)}"
+EXTRA_OECMAKE += " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'RBUS_ENABLE_TESTAPPS', '-DBUILD_RBUS_SAMPLE_APPS=ON -DBUILD_RBUS_TEST_APPS=ON ', '-DBUILD_RBUS_SAMPLE_APPS=OFF -DBUILD_RBUS_TEST_APPS=OFF', d)}"
+DEPENDS_append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'gtestapp', ' gtest benchmark ', ' ', d)}"
 
 #Dunfell Specific CFlags
 CFLAGS:append = " -Wno-format-truncation "