diff --git a/package/rene/esound/esound-alsa-pcm-newapi.patch b/package/rene/esound/esound-alsa-pcm-newapi.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5f0ed4171
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/rene/esound/esound-alsa-pcm-newapi.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+**** This patch should be removed when updating to esound >0.2.32
+****
+**** patch by Łukasz Mach <lukasz@mach.com.pl>
+**** released under the GPL license
+****
+**** updates to the new alsa pcm api used since 0.9.0_rc4
+**** (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129709)
+
+--- ../esound-0.2.32.orig/audio_alsa09.c	Thu Mar 20 09:34:19 2003
++++ ./audio_alsa09.c	Sat Dec 20 03:01:11 2003
+@@ -136,15 +136,17 @@
+ 		alsaerr = -1;
+ 		return handle;
+ 	}
+-  
+-	err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near(handle, hwparams, speed, 0);
++ 
++	int t_dir=0;
++	int t_speed=speed;
++	err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near(handle, hwparams, &t_speed, &t_dir);
+ 	if (err < 0) {
+ 		if (alsadbg)
+ 			fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", snd_strerror(err));
+ 		alsaerr = -1;
+ 		return handle;
+ 	}
+-	if (err != speed) {
++	if (t_speed != speed) {
+ 		if (alsadbg)
+ 			fprintf(stderr, "Rate not avaliable %i != %i\n", speed, err);
+ 		alsaerr = -1;
+@@ -176,8 +178,9 @@
+ 		alsaerr = -1;
+ 		return handle;
+ 	}
+-  
+-	err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_size_near(handle, hwparams, BUFFERSIZE); 
++ 
++	snd_pcm_uframes_t t_bufsize=BUFFERSIZE;
++	err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_size_near(handle, hwparams, &t_bufsize); 
+ 	if (err < 0) { 
+ 		if (alsadbg)
+ 			fprintf(stderr, "Buffersize:%s\n", snd_strerror(err)); 
diff --git a/package/rene/esound/esound.desc b/package/rene/esound/esound.desc
index d6b90df05..70c2923a0 100644
--- a/package/rene/esound/esound.desc
+++ b/package/rene/esound/esound.desc
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 0.2.31
+[V] 0.2.32
 [P] X -----5---9 209.000
 
-[D] 3554980958 esound-0.2.31.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/mirrors/ftp.gnome.org/sources/esound/0.2/ 
+[D] 2869999924 esound-0.2.32.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/mirrors/ftp.gnome.org/sources/esound/0.2/ 
 
diff --git a/package/rene/xpdf/xpdf.desc b/package/rene/xpdf/xpdf.desc
index b8a96667d..d23abccf5 100644
--- a/package/rene/xpdf/xpdf.desc
+++ b/package/rene/xpdf/xpdf.desc
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.03
+[V] 3.00
 [P] X -------7-9 373.000
 
-[D] 2146086023 xpdf-2.03.tar.gz ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/
+[D] 980943908 xpdf-3.00.tar.gz ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/
 [D] 5395543 t1lib-1.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/