diff --git a/package/avm/sloccount/sloccount.desc b/package/avm/sloccount/sloccount.desc
index 01846426e..1e46755f4 100644
--- a/package/avm/sloccount/sloccount.desc
+++ b/package/avm/sloccount/sloccount.desc
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.23
+[V] 2.26
 [P] X -?---5---9 194.800
 
-[D] 1188885665 sloccount-2.23.tar.gz http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/
+[D] 475373249 sloccount-2.26.tar.gz http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/
 
diff --git a/package/avm/sloccount/tail.patch b/package/avm/sloccount/tail.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f7df3108f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/avm/sloccount/tail.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur sloccount-2.26.orig/compute_sloc_lang sloccount-2.26/compute_sloc_lang
+--- sloccount-2.26.orig/compute_sloc_lang	2004-08-01 04:02:54.000000000 +0100
++++ sloccount-2.26/compute_sloc_lang	2005-04-13 15:55:22.000000000 +0100
+@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
+      *) ${language}_count -f ${language}_list.dat > ${language}_outfile.dat
+         ;;
+    esac
+-   tail -1 < ${language}_outfile.dat
++   tail -n 1 < ${language}_outfile.dat
+ 
+   else
+    rm -f ${language}_outfile.dat