diff --git a/external/InstallKFParticle.cmake b/external/InstallKFParticle.cmake
index 5244ac4988522e394ef9b31650749ffa4c925c94..bd49d4bb97d940357db7e490c445d59c6f1bc99b 100644
--- a/external/InstallKFParticle.cmake
+++ b/external/InstallKFParticle.cmake
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 set(KFPARTICLE_LIBNAME "${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX}KFParticle${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}")
 
-set(KFPARTICLE_SRC_URL "https://git.cbm.gsi.de/CbmSoft/KFParticle.git")
+set(KFPARTICLE_SRC_URL "https://github.com/cbmsw/KFParticle.git")
 set(KFPARTICLE_DESTDIR "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/external/KFPARTICLE-prefix")
 
+# GIT_TAG is a hash for KFParticle tag cbm/v1.1-1 
 download_project_if_needed(PROJECT         kfparticle_source
                            GIT_REPOSITORY  ${KFPARTICLE_SRC_URL}
-                           GIT_TAG         "98712bbb2e2ae633e16a543ec38fea62a9ca2053"
+                           GIT_TAG         "d4e22c8222cc6da877eefa453ade73d31d85e2e9"
                            SOURCE_DIR      ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/KFParticle
                            TEST_FILE       CMakeLists.txt
-                           PATCH_COMMAND   "patch -p1 < ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/KFParticle.patch"
                           )
 
 If(ProjectUpdated)
diff --git a/external/KFParticle.patch b/external/KFParticle.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f753a45bcd494f5cf4c017e0a64d09f294284191..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/external/KFParticle.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 6fbd90c..5a131e9 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -12,11 +12,13 @@ macro(add_target_property _target _prop _value)
- endmacro(add_target_property)
- 
- if (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "3.1")
--if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "GNU")
--  set (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "--std=gnu++11 ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
--endif ()
-+  if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "GNU")
-+    set (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "--std=gnu++11 ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
-+  endif ()
- else ()
--  set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
-+  if(NOT CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD)
-+    set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
-+  endif()
- endif ()
- 
- list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH $ENV{ROOTSYS} ${ROOTSYS})