diff --git a/packages/recoll/build.sh b/packages/recoll/build.sh
index 3840d39686..4eb63606ee 100644
--- a/packages/recoll/build.sh
+++ b/packages/recoll/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.recoll.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Full-text search for your desktop"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="1.39.1"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="1.39.2"
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.recoll.org/recoll-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=11e69d8ff027bb3b426fb548604cb884a6ddb87dc2ccae77b400ef23df8f5a64
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=46d7fc7bc2664ad95ba851894380b7c016c195b45033281974fba0f90ec3b48d
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="aspell, file, libc++, libiconv, libxapian, libxml2, libxslt, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_PYTHON_COMMON_DEPS="wheel"
@@ -23,9 +23,4 @@ termux_step_pre_configure() {
 	LDFLAGS+=" $($CC -print-libgcc-file-name)"
 	CXXFLAGS+=" -fPIC"
 	CPPFLAGS+=" -I${TERMUX_PREFIX}/include/python${TERMUX_PYTHON_VERSION}/"
-
-	echo "Applying python-recoll-setup.py.in.diff"
-	sed "s|@PYTHON_VERSION@|${TERMUX_PYTHON_VERSION}|g" \
-		$TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/python-recoll-setup.py.in.diff \
-		| patch --silent -p1
 }
diff --git a/packages/recoll/meson.build.patch b/packages/recoll/meson.build.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 095705b382..0000000000
--- a/packages/recoll/meson.build.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
-     # Searching for iconv is a meson 0.60 feature. Hopefully, for now all the systems where the
-     # meson build is used have iconv in libc. Otherwise look at glib search for iconv for how to do
-     # it.
--    #librecolldeps += dependency('iconv', method = 'auto')
-+    librecolldeps += dependency('iconv', method: 'auto')
- else
-     librecoll_needed = false
- endif
diff --git a/packages/recoll/python-recoll-setup.py.in.diff b/packages/recoll/python-recoll-setup.py.in.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ddb23f5e9..0000000000
--- a/packages/recoll/python-recoll-setup.py.in.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- a/python/recoll/setup.py.in
-+++ b/python/recoll/setup.py.in
-@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
- # Ensure that we can build with an uninstalled lib from a build tree
- library_dirs = [os.path.realpath(os.path.join(localtop, '.libs'))]
-
--if "CYGWIN" in os.environ:
--        libraries =  ['recoll', 'xapian', 'iconv', 'z']
-+if True:
-+        libraries = ['recoll', 'python@PYTHON_VERSION@', 'xslt', 'xml2', 'xapian', 'iconv', 'z']
- else:
-         libraries = ['recoll']
-