diff --git a/packages/gdbm/build.sh b/packages/gdbm/build.sh
index 2225a2742..1e75aac2a 100644
--- a/packages/gdbm/build.sh
+++ b/packages/gdbm/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library of database functions that use extensible hashing"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.17
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7cd8cc2e35b1aaede6084ea57cc9447752f498daaea854100a4bad567614977d
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.18
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b8822cb4769e2d759c828c06f196614936c88c141c3132b18252fe25c2b635ce
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--without-readline"
diff --git a/packages/gdbm/src-gdbmsync.c.patch b/packages/gdbm/src-gdbmsync.c.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 511ab2b5f..000000000
--- a/packages/gdbm/src-gdbmsync.c.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-http://git.gnu.org.ua/cgit/gdbm.git/commit/?id=1059526e357da1aa92e5c020332f4b39ceb37503
-
-diff --git a/src/gdbmsync.c b/src/gdbmsync.c
-index a8d1002..a75952b 100644
---- a/src/gdbmsync.c
-+++ b/src/gdbmsync.c
-@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ int
- gdbm_sync (GDBM_FILE dbf)
- {
-   /* Return immediately if the database needs recovery */	
--  GDBM_ASSERT_CONSISTENCY (dbf, );
-+  GDBM_ASSERT_CONSISTENCY (dbf, -1);
- 
-   /* Initialize the gdbm_errno variable. */
-   gdbm_set_errno (dbf, GDBM_NO_ERROR, FALSE);
-