diff --git a/package/rene/expat/expat-fix.patch b/package/rene/expat/expat-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e7222f730..000000000
--- a/package/rene/expat/expat-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
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---- ./lib/expat.h.org	2003-04-02 06:43:20.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./lib/expat.h	2003-04-02 13:49:08.000000000 +0200
-@@ -647,6 +647,14 @@
- /* Returns the last value set by XML_SetUserData or NULL. */
- #define XML_GetUserData(parser) (*(void **)(parser))
- 
-+enum XML_Status {
-+  XML_STATUS_ERROR = 0,
-+#define XML_STATUS_ERROR XML_STATUS_ERROR
-+  XML_STATUS_OK = 1
-+#define XML_STATUS_OK XML_STATUS_OK
-+};
-+
-+
- /* This is equivalent to supplying an encoding argument to
-    XML_ParserCreate. On success XML_SetEncoding returns non-zero,
-    zero otherwise.
-@@ -732,13 +740,6 @@
- 
-    Otherwise, the #define hackery is quite ugly and would have been dropped.
- */
--enum XML_Status {
--  XML_STATUS_ERROR = 0,
--#define XML_STATUS_ERROR XML_STATUS_ERROR
--  XML_STATUS_OK = 1
--#define XML_STATUS_OK XML_STATUS_OK
--};
--
- XMLPARSEAPI(enum XML_Status)
- XML_Parse(XML_Parser parser, const char *s, int len, int isFinal);
- 
diff --git a/package/rene/expat/expat.desc b/package/rene/expat/expat.desc
index ec882dd8f..dda283e3b 100644
--- a/package/rene/expat/expat.desc
+++ b/package/rene/expat/expat.desc
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
 
 [L] OpenSource
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.95.6
+[V] 1.95.8
 [P] X -?---5---9 104.500
 
-[D] 1664512154 expat-1.95.6.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/
+[D] 2257438721 expat-1.95.8.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/