diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/CVE-2018-14404.patch b/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/CVE-2018-14404.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8db0578728b..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/CVE-2018-14404.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-From a436374994c47b12d5de1b8b1d191a098fa23594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer@aevum.de>
-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:54:38 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix nullptr deref with XPath logic ops
-
-If the XPath stack is corrupted, for example by a misbehaving extension
-function, the "and" and "or" XPath operators could dereference NULL
-pointers. Check that the XPath stack isn't empty and optimize the
-logic operators slightly.
-
-Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/5
-
-Also see
-https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901817
-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595985
-
-This is CVE-2018-14404.
-
-Thanks to Guy Inbar for the report.
----
- xpath.c | 10 ++++------
- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/xpath.c b/xpath.c
-index 3fae0bf4..5e3bb9ff 100644
---- a/xpath.c
-+++ b/xpath.c
-@@ -13234,9 +13234,8 @@ xmlXPathCompOpEval(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, xmlXPathStepOpPtr op)
- 		return(0);
- 	    }
-             xmlXPathBooleanFunction(ctxt, 1);
--            arg1 = valuePop(ctxt);
--            arg1->boolval &= arg2->boolval;
--            valuePush(ctxt, arg1);
-+            if (ctxt->value != NULL)
-+                ctxt->value->boolval &= arg2->boolval;
- 	    xmlXPathReleaseObject(ctxt->context, arg2);
-             return (total);
-         case XPATH_OP_OR:
-@@ -13252,9 +13251,8 @@ xmlXPathCompOpEval(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, xmlXPathStepOpPtr op)
- 		return(0);
- 	    }
-             xmlXPathBooleanFunction(ctxt, 1);
--            arg1 = valuePop(ctxt);
--            arg1->boolval |= arg2->boolval;
--            valuePush(ctxt, arg1);
-+            if (ctxt->value != NULL)
-+                ctxt->value->boolval |= arg2->boolval;
- 	    xmlXPathReleaseObject(ctxt->context, arg2);
-             return (total);
-         case XPATH_OP_EQUAL:
--- 
-2.18.0
-
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/fix-infinite-loop-in-lzma-decompression.patch b/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/fix-infinite-loop-in-lzma-decompression.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 69830ccfc4e..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/fix-infinite-loop-in-lzma-decompression.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-From 2240fbf5912054af025fb6e01e26375100275e74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer@aevum.de>
-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:14:11 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix infinite loop in LZMA decompression
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-Check the liblzma error code more thoroughly to avoid infinite loops.
-
-Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/13
-Closes: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794914
-
-This is CVE-2018-9251 and CVE-2018-14567.
-
-Thanks to Dongliang Mu and Simon Wörner for the reports.
----
- xzlib.c | 9 +++++++++
- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/xzlib.c b/xzlib.c
-index a839169e..0ba88cfa 100644
---- a/xzlib.c
-+++ b/xzlib.c
-@@ -562,6 +562,10 @@ xz_decomp(xz_statep state)
-                          "internal error: inflate stream corrupt");
-                 return -1;
-             }
-+            /*
-+             * FIXME: Remapping a couple of error codes and falling through
-+             * to the LZMA error handling looks fragile.
-+             */
-             if (ret == Z_MEM_ERROR)
-                 ret = LZMA_MEM_ERROR;
-             if (ret == Z_DATA_ERROR)
-@@ -587,6 +591,11 @@ xz_decomp(xz_statep state)
-             xz_error(state, LZMA_PROG_ERROR, "compression error");
-             return -1;
-         }
-+        if ((state->how != GZIP) &&
-+            (ret != LZMA_OK) && (ret != LZMA_STREAM_END)) {
-+            xz_error(state, ret, "lzma error");
-+            return -1;
-+        }
-     } while (strm->avail_out && ret != LZMA_STREAM_END);
- 
-     /* update available output and crc check value */
--- 
-2.18.0
-
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2/template b/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
index e2de5389780..f0b57d0c91e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
@@ -3,22 +3,19 @@
 # Please keep this in sync with "srcpkgs/libxml2-python"
 #
 pkgname=libxml2
-version=2.9.8
-revision=6
-patch_args="-Np1"
+version=2.9.9
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-static --with-threads --with-history --with-icu
  --without-python"
 hostmakedepends="automake libtool gettext-devel pkg-config"
 makedepends="zlib-devel ncurses-devel readline-devel liblzma-devel icu-devel"
 short_desc="Library providing XML and HTML support"
-maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
-homepage="http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
+maintainer="Rasmus Thomsen <rasmus.thomsen@protonmail.com>"
 license="MIT"
+homepage="http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
 distfiles="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=0b74e51595654f958148759cfef0993114ddccccbb6f31aee018f3558e8e2732
-
-LDFLAGS="-lz -llzma -lpthread"
+checksum=94fb70890143e3c6549f265cee93ec064c80a84c42ad0f23e85ee1fd6540a871
 
 pre_configure() {
 	autoreconf -fi