diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 87588173937..160eea78e90 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1219,6 +1219,7 @@ libunwind-x86_64.so.8 libunwind-1.1_1
 libunwind-x86.so.8 libunwind-1.1_1
 libunwind-arm.so.8 libunwind-1.1_4
 libunwind-mips.so.8 libunwind-1.1_4
+libunwind-aarch64.so.8 libunwind-1.2rc1_1
 libmicrohttpd.so.12 libmicrohttpd-0.9.48_1
 libgit2.so.24 libgit2-0.24.0_1
 libgit2-glib-1.0.so.0 libgit2-glib-0.23.4_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libunwind/patches/x86_64-mincore.patch b/srcpkgs/libunwind/patches/x86_64-mincore.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d490c7744c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libunwind/patches/x86_64-mincore.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+From bc8698fd7ed13a629a8ec3cb2a89bd74f9d8b5c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Giuseppe Ottaviano <ott@fb.com>
+Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:28:03 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: fix mincore_validate
+
+The detection logic introduced in 28f33c8ce0b654cf31d6beda9a612870662f3c56 is
+broken, because it tests mincore using an address that is almost certainly not
+page-aligned. straces confirms that msync is used all the time.
+
+This patch fixes the logic by page-aligning the test pointer. strace now shows
+that mincore is actually used. Furthermore, the return value of mincore is not
+sufficient to assess whether the address can be safely dereferenced: we should
+also check that the pages are mapped, through the passed mvec array. This patch
+also adds this verification.
+
+Tested on a system where unwinding a stack across a JNI boundary would cause
+sporadic segfaults; no more crashes were observed after the patch.
+---
+ src/x86_64/Ginit.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
+ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+--- src/x86_64/Ginit.c
++++ src/x86_64/Ginit.c
+@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.  */
+ #include <config.h>
+ #endif
+ 
++#include <errno.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <sys/mman.h>
+@@ -81,7 +82,21 @@ static int msync_validate (void *addr, size_t len)
+ static int mincore_validate (void *addr, size_t len)
+ {
+   unsigned char mvec[2]; /* Unaligned access may cross page boundary */
+-  return mincore (addr, len, mvec);
++  size_t i;
++
++  /* mincore could fail with EAGAIN but we conservatively return -1
++     instead of looping. */
++  if (mincore (addr, len, mvec) != 0)
++    {
++      return -1;
++    }
++
++  for (i = 0; i < (len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE; i++)
++    {
++      if (!(mvec[i] & 1)) return -1;
++    }
++
++  return 0;
+ }
+ #endif
+ 
+@@ -94,7 +109,12 @@ tdep_init_mem_validate (void)
+ {
+ #ifdef HAVE_MINCORE
+   unsigned char present = 1;
+-  if (mincore (&present, 1, &present) == 0)
++  unw_word_t addr = PAGE_START((unw_word_t)&present);
++  unsigned char mvec[1];
++  int ret;
++  while ((ret = mincore ((void*)addr, PAGE_SIZE, mvec)) == -1 &&
++         errno == EAGAIN) {}
++  if (ret == 0 && (mvec[0] & 1))
+     {
+       Debug(1, "using mincore to validate memory\n");
+       mem_validate_func = mincore_validate;
+-- 
+cgit v1.0
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libunwind/template b/srcpkgs/libunwind/template
index 5eed8d1d2eb..f00e1389825 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libunwind/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libunwind/template
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 # Template file for 'libunwind'.
 pkgname=libunwind
-version=1.1
-revision=6
+version=1.2rc1
+revision=1
+wrksrc="${pkgname}-${version/rc/-rc}"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="libtool automake"
 makedepends="liblzma-devel"
-short_desc="Portable and efficient C programming interface (API) to determine the call-chain of a program"
+short_desc="Library to determine the call-chain of a program"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/"
 license="MIT"
-distfiles="http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
-checksum=9dfe0fcae2a866de9d3942c66995e4b460230446887dbdab302d41a8aee8d09a
+distfiles="http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/$pkgname/$pkgname-${version/rc/-rc}.tar.gz"
+checksum=d222f186b6bc60f49dac5030516ec35a7ed0ccca675551d6cf81008112116abc
 
 pre_configure() {
-	# https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libunwind-devel/2014-06/msg00024.html
-	sed -i /LIBCRTS/s/-lgcc/-lgcc_s/ configure.ac
 	sed -i /SUBDIRS/s/tests// Makefile.am
 	autoreconf -fi
 }