diff --git a/srcpkgs/xchm/patches/xchm-1.23-wx3.0-compat.patch b/srcpkgs/xchm/patches/xchm-1.23-wx3.0-compat.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 18d7385f52c..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/xchm/patches/xchm-1.23-wx3.0-compat.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-Description: Fix code to compile with wxwidgets 3.0
- Drops support for wx < 2.7, which is just not relevant now.  And in fact
- configure.ac checks for at least 2.8.0.
-Author: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
-Last-Update: 2014-03-07
-
---- src/chmframe.cpp
-+++ src/chmframe.cpp
-@@ -265,11 +265,7 @@ void CHMFrame::OnChangeFonts(wxCommandEv
- 		enu.EnumerateFacenames();
- 		_normalFonts = new wxArrayString;
- 
--#if wxMAJOR_VERSION == 2 && wxMINOR_VERSION >= 7
- 		*_normalFonts = enu.GetFacenames();
--#else
--		*_normalFonts = *enu.GetFacenames();
--#endif
- 		_normalFonts->Sort();
- 	}
- 
-@@ -278,11 +274,7 @@ void CHMFrame::OnChangeFonts(wxCommandEv
- 		enu.EnumerateFacenames(wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM, TRUE);
- 		_fixedFonts = new wxArrayString;
- 
--#if wxMAJOR_VERSION == 2 && wxMINOR_VERSION >= 7
- 		*_fixedFonts = enu.GetFacenames();
--#else
--		*_fixedFonts = *enu.GetFacenames();
--#endif
- 		_fixedFonts->Sort();
- 	}
- 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xchm/patches/xchm-1.27.patch b/srcpkgs/xchm/patches/xchm-1.27.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a9318246542
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xchm/patches/xchm-1.27.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- configure
++++ configure
+@@ -5669,7 +5669,7 @@ if test "${with_xmlrpc_dir+set}" = set; then :
+ fi
+ 
+ 
+-if test -n $XMLRPCDIR ; then
++if test -n "$XMLRPCDIR" ; then
+     CFLAGS="-I$XMLRPCDIR/include -I$XMLRPCDIR/include/xmlrpcpp $CFLAGS"
+     CXXFLAGS="-I$XMLRPCDIR/include -I$XMLRPCDIR/include/xmlrpcpp $CXXFLAGS"
+     CPPFLAGS="-I$XMLRPCDIR/include -I$XMLRPCDIR/include/xmlrpcpp $CPPFLAGS"
+-- 
+2.21.0
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xchm/template b/srcpkgs/xchm/template
index df0ef4cec9e..ae054ae05dd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xchm/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xchm/template
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'xchm'
 pkgname=xchm
-version=1.23
-revision=8
+version=1.27
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--with-wx-config=wx-config-gtk3"
 makedepends="libchmlib-devel wxWidgets-gtk3-devel"
-short_desc="The CHM viewer for Unix"
+short_desc="CHM viewer for Unix"
 maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
-homepage="http://xchm.sourceforge.net/"
-distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=8f8f5c60954f340e50f1613913eaca6ff489c10ca36b2570b360d8ccba77c062
+homepage="https://github.com/rzvncj/xCHM"
+distfiles="https://github.com/rzvncj/xCHM/releases/download/${version}/xchm-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=12989099d242282c43c709bf917da386e57c947f2d8f7dcfd1d0d728b6999650