diff --git a/packages/screen/build.sh b/packages/screen/build.sh
index d5f14ec2b..f04230a97 100644
--- a/packages/screen/build.sh
+++ b/packages/screen/build.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=4.7.0
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=4.8.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/screen/screen-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=da775328fa783bd2a787d722014dbd99c6093effc11f337827604c2efc5d20c1
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=6e11b13d8489925fde25dfb0935bf6ed71f9eb47eff233a181e078fde5655aa1
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, libcrypt"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
 --disable-socket-dir
diff --git a/packages/screen/misc.c.patch b/packages/screen/misc.c.patch
index 8fcff2950..bdd9d7d4c 100644
--- a/packages/screen/misc.c.patch
+++ b/packages/screen/misc.c.patch
@@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
---- ../cache/screen-4.4.0/misc.c	2016-06-19 19:41:03.000000000 +0000
-+++ ./misc.c	2016-12-20 03:13:04.387236649 +0000
-@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
- #ifdef SVR4
- # include <sys/resource.h>
- #endif
--
- extern struct layer *flayer;
+diff -uNr screen-4.8.0/misc.c screen-4.8.0.mod/misc.c
+--- screen-4.8.0/misc.c	2020-02-05 22:09:38.000000000 +0200
++++ screen-4.8.0.mod/misc.c	2020-02-10 14:15:45.256423801 +0200
+@@ -389,8 +389,11 @@
+     int maxfd, i, ret, z;
  
- extern int eff_uid, real_uid;
-@@ -379,6 +378,8 @@
- #endif /* SVR4 */
- #if defined(SYSV) && defined(NOFILE) && !defined(ISC)
-   f = NOFILE;
-+#elif defined(__ANDROID__)
-+  f = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX);
- #else /* SYSV && !ISC */
-   f = getdtablesize();
- #endif /* SYSV && !ISC */
+     i = 3; /* skip stdin, stdout and stderr */
++#if defined(__ANDROID__)
++    maxfd = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX);
++#else
+     maxfd = getdtablesize();
+-
++#endif
+     while (i < maxfd)
+       {
+         memset(pfd, 0, sizeof(pfd));