diff --git a/packages/minicom/build.sh b/packages/minicom/build.sh
index 8ba1fca87a..e61bba8263 100644
--- a/packages/minicom/build.sh
+++ b/packages/minicom/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Friendly menu driven serial communication program"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.8
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="2.9"
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom/-/archive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/minicom-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9e8dee8e7e1f6d6115d0e1955da5b801e44b91289f6b3e320842949488d4b22f
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=21e609d1b58c5de06400f6e36ed3a5060711847a63bc984b6e994d9ad1641d37
+TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libiconv, ncurses"
 
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
diff --git a/packages/minicom/minicom.c.patch b/packages/minicom/minicom.c.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1537971a03..0000000000
--- a/packages/minicom/minicom.c.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- a/src/minicom.c
-+++ b/src/minicom.c
-@@ -1544,7 +1544,10 @@
- #endif
- 
-   /* On some Linux systems SIGALRM is masked by default. Unmask it */  
--  sigrelse(SIGALRM);
-+  sigset_t sigset;
-+  sigemptyset(&sigset);
-+  sigaddset(&sigset, SIGALRM);
-+  sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &sigset, NULL);
- 
-   keyboard(KINSTALL, 0);
- 
diff --git a/packages/minicom/script.c.patch b/packages/minicom/script.c.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d78f529e0..0000000000
--- a/packages/minicom/script.c.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- ../minicom-2.7/src/script.c	2013-10-29 22:07:42.000000000 +1100
-+++ ./src/script.c	2016-04-19 16:02:45.252434872 +1000
-@@ -1093,7 +1093,10 @@
-   signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
- #endif
-   /* On some Linux systems SIGALRM is masked by default. Unmask it */  
--  sigrelse(SIGALRM);  
-+  sigset_t sigset;
-+  sigemptyset(&sigset);
-+  sigaddset(&sigset, SIGALRM);
-+  sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &sigset, NULL);
- 
-   /* initialize locale support */
-   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");