diff --git a/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/Add-ARRAY_SIZE-macro.patch b/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/Add-ARRAY_SIZE-macro.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ad6cdcc809..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/Add-ARRAY_SIZE-macro.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# HG changeset patch
-# User Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
-# Date 1440364600 -7200
-# Node ID 4eff7b4cde33a56d9caf64e44722186c89e26922
-# Parent  3cb4335d5819099c85a30dae714f0a213fa4a44c
-Add ARRAY_SIZE macro
-
-diff -r 3cb4335d5819 -r 4eff7b4cde33 src/minicom.h
---- a/src/minicom.h	Mon Jun 29 21:16:14 2015 +0200
-+++ b/src/minicom.h	Sun Aug 23 23:16:40 2015 +0200
-@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@
- int lockfile_create(int no_msgs);
- void lockfile_remove(void);
- 
-+#define ARRAY_SIZE(a) (sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]))
- 
- 
- /* We want the ANSI offsetof macro to do some dirty stuff. */
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/CVE-2017-7467.patch b/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/CVE-2017-7467.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b704e7d1d2..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/CVE-2017-7467.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# HG changeset patch
-# User Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
-# Date 1492510834 -7200
-# Node ID c33d24938f3ed3dc2b7d328fe255794468a814eb
-# Parent  c72edf0e43bca463239ea15594d128ecbc0d2574
-Fix CVE-2017-7467, a remote exploitalbe out of bound access
-
-This fixes an out of bounds data access that can lead to a
-remotely exploitable code execution.
-
-This issue was found by Solar Designer of Openwall during a
-security audit of the Virtuozzo 7 product, which contains
-derived downstream code in its prl-vzvncserver component.
-The corresponding Virtuozzo 7 fix is:
-
-https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZ/repos/prl-vzvncserver/commits/6d95404e75b98f36b1cc85ee23df99dcf06ca13f
-
-Openwall would like to thank the Virtuozzo company for
-funding the effort.
-
-diff -r c72edf0e43bc -r c33d24938f3e src/vt100.c
---- a/src/vt100.c	Sat Sep 17 02:17:37 2016 +0200
-+++ b/src/vt100.c	Tue Apr 18 12:20:34 2017 +0200
-@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@
-   }
-   /* Separation between numbers ? */
-   if (c == ';') {
--    if (ptr < 7)
-+    if (ptr < (int)ARRAY_SIZE(escparms) - 1)
-       ptr++;
-     return;
-   }
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/musl-sys_param_h.patch b/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/musl-sys_param_h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index be395faa80d..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/musl-sys_param_h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-MAXNAMLEN is defined in sys/param.h
-
---- a/src/getsdir.c	2011-02-14 11:07:00.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/src/getsdir.c	2015-06-22 02:47:36.263541750 +0200
-@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <string.h>
-+#include <sys/param.h>
- #include <sys/types.h>
- #include <sys/stat.h>
- #include <errno.h>
diff --git a/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/musl-vc_music.patch b/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/musl-vc_music.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 59bc022bb15..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/minicom/patches/musl-vc_music.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-In musl libc __GLIBC__ is not defined, while it has the
-same required header files for VC_MUSIC to work.
-Just disable the additional __GLIBC__ shield.
-
---- a/src/dial.c	2013-05-09 20:32:02.000000000 +0200
-+++ b/src/dial.c	2015-06-22 02:44:34.768551564 +0200
-@@ -39,11 +39,9 @@
- #include "intl.h"
- 
- #ifdef VC_MUSIC
--#  if defined(__GLIBC__)
--#    include <sys/ioctl.h>
--#    include <sys/kd.h>
--#    include <sys/time.h>
--#  endif
-+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
-+#include <sys/kd.h>
-+#include <sys/time.h>
- #endif
- 
- enum { CURRENT_VERSION = 6 };
diff --git a/srcpkgs/minicom/template b/srcpkgs/minicom/template
index 073ccb2f5ea..39825eff43d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/minicom/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/minicom/template
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # Template file for 'minicom'
 pkgname=minicom
-version=2.7.1
-revision=2
+version=2.9
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 makedepends="ncurses-devel"
 short_desc="Menu driven communications program"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/minicom"
-distfiles="${DEBIAN_SITE}/main/m/minicom/minicom_${version}.orig.tar.gz"
-checksum=532f836b7a677eb0cb1dca8d70302b73729c3d30df26d58368d712e5cca041f1
+distfiles="${DEBIAN_SITE}/main/m/minicom/minicom_${version}.orig.tar.bz2"
+checksum=9efbb6458140e5a0de445613f0e76bcf12cbf7a9892b2f53e075c2e7beaba86c
 
 CFLAGS="-fcommon"