diff --git a/ports/simdjson/CONTROL b/ports/simdjson/CONTROL
deleted file mode 100644
index 585ba0fa8..000000000
--- a/ports/simdjson/CONTROL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Source: simdjson
-Version: 2020-05-26
-Description: A extremely fast JSON library that can parse gigabytes of JSON per second
-Homepage: https://github.com/lemire/simdjson
-Supports: !x86
diff --git a/ports/simdjson/no_benchmark.patch b/ports/simdjson/no_benchmark.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ec15869e..000000000
--- a/ports/simdjson/no_benchmark.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 42640bc..7a621a8 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ add_subdirectory(singleheader)
- add_subdirectory(dependencies)
- add_subdirectory(tests)
- add_subdirectory(examples)
--add_subdirectory(benchmark)
- add_subdirectory(fuzz)
- 
- #
diff --git a/ports/simdjson/portfile.cmake b/ports/simdjson/portfile.cmake
index be6f80a0a..409182a72 100644
--- a/ports/simdjson/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/simdjson/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
-# https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/issues/5418#issuecomment-470519894
-vcpkg_fail_port_install(ON_ARCH "x86")
-
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
-    REPO lemire/simdjson
-    REF ac0c3093f4935fd266656abc9311a63fad98e99e
-    SHA512 69bc9ce45839d5e42aefcf5a96f82f3049b05591f4d463b788365123ba06c36f0f784ede02e5015bd96bf8d0e631ccaac285ed5a63048113f2ea01d91d51b395
+    REPO simdjson/simdjson
+    REF 74870a81898ba44407f5dce1f0f50d4ea53fca04 # v0.4.6
     HEAD_REF master
-    PATCHES
-        no_benchmark.patch # `_pclose` is not available on UWP
+    SHA512 abd8621cb5ed2a9ccad54c2b9e09a2fc8c8fe5d6a70501d23b879f33e34a6c25d33901b385615e9bb29817c302977aa89bc0ab2a13365e413da557f1a099dd21
 )
 
 string(COMPARE EQUAL "${VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE}" "static" SIMDJSON_BUILD_STATIC)
@@ -20,6 +15,7 @@ vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     OPTIONS
         -DSIMDJSON_BUILD_STATIC=${SIMDJSON_BUILD_STATIC}
         -DSIMDJSON_IMPLEMENTATION_ARM64=${SIMDJSON_IMPLEMENTATION_ARM64}
+        -DSIMDJSON_JUST_LIBRARY=ON
         -DSIMDJSON_GOOGLE_BENCHMARKS=OFF
         -DSIMDJSON_COMPETITION=OFF
         -DSIMDJSON_SANITIZE=OFF # issue 10145, pr 11495
diff --git a/ports/simdjson/vcpkg.json b/ports/simdjson/vcpkg.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..618dcaf12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/simdjson/vcpkg.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "name": "simdjson",
+  "version-string": "0.4.6",
+  "description": "A extremely fast JSON library that can parse gigabytes of JSON per second",
+  "homepage": "https://simdjson.org/",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0"
+}
diff --git a/scripts/ci.baseline.txt b/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
index 63bf03318..b5d8dbdce 100644
--- a/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
+++ b/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
@@ -1606,8 +1606,6 @@ shogun:x64-windows-static = skip
 shogun:x86-windows        = skip
 signalrclient:x64-uwp=fail
 signalrclient:arm-uwp=fail
-simdjson:arm-uwp=fail
-simdjson:x86-windows=fail
 skia:arm64-windows=fail
 skia:arm-uwp=fail
 skia:x64-linux=fail