diff --git a/packages/memcached/build.sh b/packages/memcached/build.sh
index a008b22af..d9039b3c4 100644
--- a/packages/memcached/build.sh
+++ b/packages/memcached/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://memcached.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.5.22
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.6.1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=c2b47e9d20575a2367087c229636ffc3fb699a6c3a7f3a22f44402f25f5f1f93
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=881c30a222e019657e53b12230aaf629d7b5c080e4b74378c2eb5e78800d57d6
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libevent, libsasl"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="memcached-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="memcached-dev"
@@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-sasl --disable-coverage"
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
-    export ac_cv_c_endian=little
+	CPPFLAGS+=" -D__USE_GNU"
 
-    # fix SASL configuration path
-    perl -p -i -e "s#/etc/sasl#$TERMUX_PREFIX/etc/sasl#" $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDDIR/sasl_defs.c
+	export ac_cv_c_endian=little
 
-    # getsubopt() taken from https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/src/include/getsubopt.c
-    cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/getsubopt.c $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR
-    cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/getsubopt.h $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR
+	# fix SASL configuration path
+	perl -p -i -e "s#/etc/sasl#$TERMUX_PREFIX/etc/sasl#" $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDDIR/sasl_defs.c
+
+	# getsubopt() taken from https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/src/include/getsubopt.c
+	cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/getsubopt.c $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR
+	cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/getsubopt.h $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR
 }
diff --git a/packages/memcached/memcached.c.patch b/packages/memcached/memcached.c.patch
index c8fd3ce9d..a60f2100d 100644
--- a/packages/memcached/memcached.c.patch
+++ b/packages/memcached/memcached.c.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-diff -u -r ../memcached-1.5.5/memcached.c ./memcached.c
---- ../memcached-1.5.5/memcached.c	2018-02-13 05:09:37.000000000 +0000
-+++ ./memcached.c	2018-02-13 14:15:00.622511540 +0000
+diff -uNr memcached-1.6.1/memcached.c memcached-1.6.1.mod/memcached.c
+--- memcached-1.6.1/memcached.c	2020-03-17 04:49:39.000000000 +0200
++++ memcached-1.6.1.mod/memcached.c	2020-03-20 13:32:09.829964421 +0200
 @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   *      Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>
   */
@@ -9,12 +9,3 @@ diff -u -r ../memcached-1.5.5/memcached.c ./memcached.c
  #ifdef EXTSTORE
  #include "storage.h"
  #endif
-@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@
- 
- /* FreeBSD 4.x doesn't have IOV_MAX exposed. */
- #ifndef IOV_MAX
--#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__GNU__)
-+#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__GNU__) || defined(__ANDROID__)
- # define IOV_MAX 1024
- /* GNU/Hurd don't set MAXPATHLEN
-  * http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/porting/guidelines.html#PATH_MAX_tt_MAX_PATH_tt_MAXPATHL */
diff --git a/packages/memcached/memcached.h.patch b/packages/memcached/memcached.h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..06103aac5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/memcached/memcached.h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -uNr memcached-1.6.1/memcached.h memcached-1.6.1.mod/memcached.h
+--- memcached-1.6.1/memcached.h	2020-03-17 04:49:39.000000000 +0200
++++ memcached-1.6.1.mod/memcached.h	2020-03-20 13:32:32.461293519 +0200
+@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
+ #include <limits.h>
+ /* FreeBSD 4.x doesn't have IOV_MAX exposed. */
+ #ifndef IOV_MAX
+-#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__GNU__)
++#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__GNU__) || defined(__ANDROID__)
+ # define IOV_MAX 1024
+ /* GNU/Hurd don't set MAXPATHLEN
+  * http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/porting/guidelines.html#PATH_MAX_tt_MAX_PATH_tt_MAXPATHL */