diff --git a/packages/binutils/build.sh b/packages/binutils/build.sh
index 80b455242..3933536f6 100755
--- a/packages/binutils/build.sh
+++ b/packages/binutils/build.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Collection of binary tools, the main ones being ld, the GNU linker, and as, the GNU assembler"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.27
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.28
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=26253bf0f360ceeba1d9ab6965c57c6a48a01a8343382130d1ed47c468a3094f
-TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--disable-werror"
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=cd717966fc761d840d451dbd58d44e1e5b92949d2073d75b73fccb476d772fcf
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--disable-werror --with-system-zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="tooldir=$TERMUX_PREFIX"
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="share/man/man1/windmc.1 share/man/man1/windres.1 bin/ld.bfd"
 
diff --git a/packages/binutils/gold_layout_printf_cast.patch b/packages/binutils/gold_layout_printf_cast.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c079aa4a..000000000
--- a/packages/binutils/gold_layout_printf_cast.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../binutils-2.24/gold/layout.cc ./gold/layout.cc
---- ../binutils-2.24/gold/layout.cc	2013-11-04 16:33:39.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./gold/layout.cc	2014-02-12 18:03:07.000000000 +0100
-@@ -3031,7 +3031,7 @@
- 	    gold_error(_("/dev/urandom: read failed: %s"), strerror(errno));
- 	  else if (static_cast<size_t>(got) != uuidsz)
- 	    gold_error(_("/dev/urandom: expected %zu bytes, got %zd bytes"),
--		       uuidsz, got);
-+		       uuidsz, (signed size_t) got);
- 	}
- 
-       desc.assign(buffer, uuidsz);
diff --git a/packages/binutils/gold_printf_cast.patch b/packages/binutils/gold_printf_cast.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 242aa5c44..000000000
--- a/packages/binutils/gold_printf_cast.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../binutils-2.24/gold/fileread.cc ./gold/fileread.cc
---- ../binutils-2.24/gold/fileread.cc	2013-11-04 16:33:39.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./gold/fileread.cc	2014-02-12 18:00:06.000000000 +0100
-@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@
-   if (got != want)
-     gold_fatal(_("%s: file too short: read only %zd of %zd bytes at %lld"),
- 	       this->filename().c_str(),
--	       got, want, static_cast<long long>(base + first_offset));
-+	       (signed size_t) got, (signed size_t) want, static_cast<long long>(base + first_offset));
- }
- 
- // Portable IOV_MAX.