diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 536447e0020..885d82c379a 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ libgimpconfig-2.0.so.0 libgimp-2.8.10_3
 libgimpmath-2.0.so.0 libgimp-2.8.10_3
 libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 libgimp-2.8.10_3
 libgimpmodule-2.0.so.0 libgimp-2.8.10_3
-libexiv2.so.14 exiv2-0.25_1
+libexiv2.so.26 exiv2-0.26_1
 libKF5Holidays.so.5 kholidays-16.12.0_1
 libsearchclient.so.0 strigi-0.7.2_1
 libstreamanalyzer.so.0 strigi-0.7.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/5405d616.patch b/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/5405d616.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..516b9807e74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/5405d616.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From 5405d61623e82896e498c5c8342dd6f42e689115 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: clanmills <robin@clanmills.com>
+Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:14:42 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1305
+
+---
+ src/pentaxmn.cpp | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/pentaxmn.cpp b/src/pentaxmn.cpp
+index 4fc38be0..b22cb43b 100644
+--- src/pentaxmn.cpp
++++ src/pentaxmn.cpp
+@@ -1167,6 +1167,8 @@ namespace Exiv2 {
+ 
+     std::ostream& PentaxMakerNote::printShutterCount(std::ostream& os, const Value& value, const ExifData* metadata)
+     {
++        if ( ! metadata ) return os << "undefined" ;
++
+         ExifData::const_iterator dateIt = metadata->findKey(
+                 ExifKey("Exif.PentaxDng.Date"));
+         if (dateIt == metadata->end()) {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/f9d0be42.patch b/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/f9d0be42.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f92c0a1c2c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/f9d0be42.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From 591dea579ae946972fef14bbf799b2d3a12e82d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?M=C4=81ris=20Narti=C5=A1s?= <mn@sungis.lv>
+Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:37:40 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix crash on undefined metadata on some Nikon images.
+ Identical to commit:5405d61623e82896e498c5c8342dd6f42e689115
+
+---
+ src/nikonmn.cpp | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/nikonmn.cpp b/src/nikonmn.cpp
+index 92047755..8c42e317 100644
+--- src/nikonmn.cpp
++++ src/nikonmn.cpp
+@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ namespace Exiv2 {
+                                                const Value& value,
+                                                const ExifData* exifData)
+     {
++        if ( ! exifData ) return os << "undefined" ;
++
+         if ( value.count() >= 9 ) {
+             ByteOrder bo = getKeyString("Exif.MakerNote.ByteOrder",exifData) == "MM" ? bigEndian : littleEndian;
+             byte      p[4];
diff --git a/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/musl-mutex-initializer.patch b/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/musl-mutex-initializer.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..29ba671a9cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/exiv2/patches/musl-mutex-initializer.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+--- src/actions.cpp.orig	2017-09-19 11:49:12.000000000 +0000
++++ src/actions.cpp	2017-09-19 11:49:26.682396655 +0000
+@@ -2049,7 +2049,11 @@
+   /* This is the critical section object (statically allocated). */
+   static pthread_mutex_t cs =  PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
+  #else
+-  static pthread_mutex_t cs =  PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP;
++  #if !defined(__GLIBC__)
++   static pthread_mutex_t cs =  {{{PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE}}};
++  #else
++   static pthread_mutex_t cs =  PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP;
++  #endif
+  #endif
+ #endif
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/exiv2/template b/srcpkgs/exiv2/template
index cffb838c515..ea6259dc6be 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/exiv2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/exiv2/template
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 # Template file for 'exiv2'
 pkgname=exiv2
-version=0.25
-revision=3
+version=0.26
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
+wrksrc=exiv2-trunk
 makedepends="zlib-devel expat-devel"
 short_desc="Image metadata manipulation"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.exiv2.org"
-distfiles="${homepage}/exiv2-$version.tar.gz"
-checksum=c80bfc778a15fdb06f71265db2c3d49d8493c382e516cb99b8c9f9cbde36efa4
+distfiles="http://www.exiv2.org/builds/exiv2-${version}-trunk.tar.gz"
+checksum=c75e3c4a0811bf700d92c82319373b7a825a2331c12b8b37d41eb58e4f18eafb
 
 exiv2-devel_package() {
 	depends="${makedepends} ${sourcepkg}-${version}_${revision}"