diff --git a/srcpkgs/qemacs/patches/qemacs-0.4.0dev-utf8-tty.patch b/srcpkgs/qemacs/patches/qemacs-0.4.0dev-utf8-tty.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7281f6d6fe1..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/qemacs/patches/qemacs-0.4.0dev-utf8-tty.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-diff --git tty.c tty.c
-index bff0a97..21287a4 100644
---- tty.c
-+++ tty.c
-@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ typedef struct TTYState {
-     /* input handling */
-     enum InputState input_state;
-     int input_param;
--    int utf8_state;
-     int utf8_index;
-     unsigned char buf[10];
-     char *term_name;
-@@ -413,12 +412,14 @@ static void tty_read_handler(void *opaque)
- 
-     /* charset handling */
-     if (s->charset == &charset_utf8) {
--        if (ts->utf8_state == 0) {
--            const char *p = cs8(ts->buf);
-+        /* Make sure utf8 input works correctly 20040314 <damm@opensource.se> */
-+        ts->utf8_index++;
-+        if (utf8_length[ts->buf[0]] == ts->utf8_index) {
-+            const char *p;
-+            p = (const char *)ts->buf;
-             ch = utf8_decode(&p);
--        } else {
--            ts->utf8_state = utf8_length[ts->buf[0]] - 1;
-             ts->utf8_index = 0;
-+        } else {
-             return;
-         }
-     } else {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qemacs/template b/srcpkgs/qemacs/template
index 04364a4212e..e4dc8a8b3da 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/qemacs/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/qemacs/template
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # Template file for 'qemacs'
 pkgname=qemacs
-version=0.4.0.20140809
-revision=2
+version=0.5.0.20170701
+revision=1
 wrksrc="${pkgname}"
 build_style=configure
 configure_args="--prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
  --disable-x11 --disable-plugins"
 hostmakedepends="cvs"
-short_desc="Small but powerful Emacs clone (feat. UTF-8, HTML, shell, dired)"
-maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+short_desc="Small but powerful Emacs clone (with UTF-8, HTML, shell, dired)"
+maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 homepage="http://bellard.org/qemacs/"
 
@@ -16,17 +16,18 @@ do_fetch() {
 	cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/qemacs \
 		co -D ${version##*.} qemacs
 }
-
 do_build() {
 	sed -i -e /HOST_CC/s/CFLAGS/HOST_CFLAGS/ -e /INSTALL/s/-s// \
 		Makefile */Makefile
 	echo CONFIG_HTML=yes >>config.mak
+	echo '#define CONFIG_HTML 1' >>config.h
 	make V=1 TARGETS=qe STRIP=echo CC="$CC" \
 		CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -funsigned-char -Ilibqhtml -I.." \
 		LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
 }
-
 do_install() {
-	make TARGETS=qe DESTDIR="$DESTDIR" CONFIG_HTML= install
+	make V=1 TARGETS=qe STRIP=echo CC="$CC" \
+		CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -funsigned-char -Ilibqhtml -I.." \
+		LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" CONFIG_HTML= install
 	vdoc qe-doc.html
 }