diff --git a/packages/direvent/build.sh b/packages/direvent/build.sh
index 5e11e86eb..9931b6a9d 100644
--- a/packages/direvent/build.sh
+++ b/packages/direvent/build.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/direvent/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Monitor of events in file system directories"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.2
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/direvent/direvent-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=239822cdda9ecbbbc41a69181b34505b2d3badd4df5367e765a0ceb002883b55
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9405a8a77da49fe92bbe4af18bf925ff91f6d3374c10b7d700a031bacb94c497
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-glob"
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
diff --git a/packages/direvent/preproc.c.patch b/packages/direvent/preproc.c.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a226dac6..000000000
--- a/packages/direvent/preproc.c.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-"The getdtablesize functions has been deprecated by Posix and has been   
- removed from Android's LB64 ABI. Replace calls to it with the modern
- equivalent sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)."
-
-- https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-reviews/AXhZapYuHi8
-
-diff -u -r ../direvent-5.0/grecs/src/preproc.c ./grecs/src/preproc.c
---- ../direvent-5.0/grecs/src/preproc.c	2013-12-17 16:32:57.000000000 -0500
-+++ ./grecs/src/preproc.c	2016-01-03 08:46:26.663047361 -0500
-@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@
- 		}
- 
- 		/* Close unneeded descripitors */
--		for (i = getdtablesize(); i > 2; i--)
-+		for (i = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); i > 2; i--)
- 			close(i);
- 
- 		if (!grecs_log_to_stderr) {