diff --git a/packages/hexcurse/build.sh b/packages/hexcurse/build.sh
index c56a57cb2..1d7543e77 100644
--- a/packages/hexcurse/build.sh
+++ b/packages/hexcurse/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/LonnyGomes/hexcurse
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Console hexeditor"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.58
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/LonnyGomes/hexcurse/archive/hexcurse-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=hexcurse-hexcurse-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.60.0
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/LonnyGomes/hexcurse/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=hexcurse-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses"
diff --git a/packages/hexcurse/src-getopt.c.patch b/packages/hexcurse/src-getopt.c.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b577c8119..000000000
--- a/packages/hexcurse/src-getopt.c.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-Patchvsubmitted as pull request:
-
-https://github.com/LonnyGomes/hexcurse/pull/18
-
-diff -u -r ../hexcurse-hexcurse-1.58/src/getopt.c ./src/getopt.c
---- ../hexcurse-hexcurse-1.58/src/getopt.c	2014-02-26 19:26:34.000000000 -0500
-+++ ./src/getopt.c	2015-08-23 07:53:55.917711262 -0400
-@@ -32,16 +32,6 @@
- #undef optind
- #undef alloca
- 
--/* The following modification was submited by Claudio Fanin.  This change *
-- * enables hexcurse to be compiled with SGI's proprietary compiler        */
--#ifdef _SGIAPI
--#include <alloca.h>
--#endif
--#ifndef __alloca
--#define __alloca      alloca
--#endif
--/* end of modification */
--
- #ifdef HAVE_OPTIND
- extern char* optarg;
- #else
-@@ -85,7 +75,7 @@
-      char **argv;
- {
-   int nonopts_size = (last_nonopt - first_nonopt) * sizeof (char *);
--  char **temp = (char **) __alloca (nonopts_size);
-+  char **temp = (char **) malloc(nonopts_size);
- 
-   /* Interchange the two blocks of data in ARGV.  */
- 
-@@ -95,6 +85,7 @@
-   my_bcopy ((char *) temp,
- 	    (char *) &argv[first_nonopt + optind - last_nonopt],
- 	    nonopts_size);
-+  free(temp);
- 
-   /* Update records for the slots the non-options now occupy.  */
-