diff --git a/base/diffutils/diffutils-3.0-glibc-2.16-no-gets.patch b/base/diffutils/diffutils-3.0-glibc-2.16-no-gets.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 65684cba0..000000000
--- a/base/diffutils/diffutils-3.0-glibc-2.16-no-gets.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../diffutils/diffutils-3.0-glibc-2.16-no-gets.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2012 The OpenSDE Project
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-Since the 2.16 release of the glibc, 'gets' is not defined in the gnulib anymore
-
-This is a hack until upstream pulls in a new gnulib version
-
-Within gnulib this issue was already adsressed in the following commit:
-
-http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=66712c23388e93e5c518ebc8515140fa0c80734
-
---- diffutils-3.0/lib/stdio.in.h.orig	2012-08-05 05:13:52.951988940 +0200
-+++ diffutils-3.0/lib/stdio.in.h	2012-08-05 05:14:18.730876314 +0200
-@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@
-    so any use of gets warrants an unconditional warning.  Assume it is
-    always declared, since it is required by C89.  */
- #undef gets
--_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
- 
- #if @GNULIB_FOPEN@
- # if @REPLACE_FOPEN@
diff --git a/base/diffutils/diffutils.conf b/base/diffutils/diffutils.conf
index 28c05b9bd..70961447c 100644
--- a/base/diffutils/diffutils.conf
+++ b/base/diffutils/diffutils.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../diffutils/diffutils.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2006 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2006 - 2015 The OpenSDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 #
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@
 
 # apply the patches defined in the diffutils.desc
 var_append patchfiles ' ' "`match_source_file -p patch`"
-
+var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND ' ' '-std=gnu99'
diff --git a/base/diffutils/diffutils.desc b/base/diffutils/diffutils.desc
index 30a1a6288..723d74e6c 100644
--- a/base/diffutils/diffutils.desc
+++ b/base/diffutils/diffutils.desc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../diffutils/diffutils.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2010 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2015 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 [COPY]
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 3.0
+[V] 3.3
 [P] X -1---5---9 107.500
 
-[D] 2791299019 diffutils-3.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils/
+[D] 3257509513 diffutils-3.3.tar.xz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils/