diff --git a/packages/neovim/build.sh b/packages/neovim/build.sh
index 8a55f579f..4092d752b 100644
--- a/packages/neovim/build.sh
+++ b/packages/neovim/build.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://neovim.io/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Ambitious Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility (nvim)"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.3.8
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=953e134568d824dad7cbf32ee3114951732f9a750c462e430e6b593f418af76c
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.4.2
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9f874d3d2a74f33b931db62adebe28f8d2ec116270d1e13998b58a73348b6e56
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/neovim/neovim/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libiconv, libuv, libmsgpack, libandroid-support, libvterm, libtermkey, liblua, libunibilium"
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libiconv, libuv, luv, libmsgpack, libandroid-support, libvterm, libtermkey, liblua, libunibilium"
 TERMUX_PKG_HOSTBUILD=true
 
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
diff --git a/packages/neovim/cmake-GenerateHelptags.cmake.patch b/packages/neovim/cmake-GenerateHelptags.cmake.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6bc6717ce..000000000
--- a/packages/neovim/cmake-GenerateHelptags.cmake.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../neovim-master/cmake/GenerateHelptags.cmake.in ./cmake/GenerateHelptags.cmake.in
---- ../neovim-master/cmake/GenerateHelptags.cmake.in	2015-06-09 06:31:02.000000000 -0400
-+++ ./cmake/GenerateHelptags.cmake.in	2015-06-10 09:24:17.156789250 -0400
-@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
- set(EMPTY_FILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/.GenerateHelptags)
- file(WRITE ${EMPTY_FILE} "")
- execute_process(
--  COMMAND ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bin/nvim
-+  COMMAND "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/../host-build/bin/nvim"
-     -u NONE
-     -esX
-     -c "helptags ++t ."