diff --git a/packages/newsboat/build.sh b/packages/newsboat/build.sh
index aa0db8473..d4729c7fe 100644
--- a/packages/newsboat/build.sh
+++ b/packages/newsboat/build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://newsboat.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.11.1
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=aab67dcd386a3512812e1af0fddb8e1f4dce08d2a106946fe5ad405210ed37cf
+TERMUX_PKG_API_LEVEL=24
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.12
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9bbdbc2bca9e0c75a75588d89de3862f72e3fcb41c5d7db6210e2b491ffd43f4
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://newsboat.org/releases/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/newsboat-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, libandroid-glob, json-c, libsqlite, libcurl, libxml2, stfl, ncurses, openssl"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
diff --git a/packages/newsboat/src-fslock.cpp.patch b/packages/newsboat/src-fslock.cpp.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 549b0a3d8..000000000
--- a/packages/newsboat/src-fslock.cpp.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../newsboat-2.10.2/src/fslock.cpp ./src/fslock.cpp
---- ../newsboat-2.10.2/src/fslock.cpp	2017-12-25 18:49:35.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./src/fslock.cpp	2017-12-26 23:47:20.520356104 +0100
-@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
- #include <fcntl.h>
- #include <string.h>
- 
-+#ifdef __ANDROID__
-+#include <sys/file.h>
-+#endif
-+
- #include <logger.h>
- 
- namespace newsboat {
-@@ -40,7 +44,11 @@
- 	}
- 
- 	// then we lock it (returns immediately if locking is not possible)
-+#ifdef __ANDROID__
-+	if (flock(fd, LOCK_EX) == 0) {
-+#else
- 	if (lockf(fd, F_TLOCK, 0) == 0) {
-+#endif
- 		LOG(level::DEBUG, "FSLock: locked `%s', writing PID...", new_lock_filepath);
- 		std::string pidtext = std::to_string(getpid());
- 		// locking successful -> truncate file and write own PID into it
diff --git a/packages/newsboat/src-remote_api.cpp.patch b/packages/newsboat/src-remote_api.cpp.patch
index 46fab06f5..4b47eefdf 100644
--- a/packages/newsboat/src-remote_api.cpp.patch
+++ b/packages/newsboat/src-remote_api.cpp.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-diff -u -r ../newsboat-2.10.1/src/remote_api.cpp ./src/remote_api.cpp
---- ../newsboat-2.10.1/src/remote_api.cpp	2017-09-22 22:01:50.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./src/remote_api.cpp	2017-10-15 00:14:41.848769212 +0200
-@@ -36,6 +36,22 @@
+diff -u -r ../newsboat-2.12/src/remote_api.cpp ./src/remote_api.cpp
+--- ../newsboat-2.12/src/remote_api.cpp	2018-06-24 21:30:30.000000000 +0200
++++ ./src/remote_api.cpp	2018-06-26 03:56:48.528961214 +0200
+@@ -39,6 +39,22 @@
  	return pass;
  }
  
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ diff -u -r ../newsboat-2.10.1/src/remote_api.cpp ./src/remote_api.cpp
 +}
 +#endif
 +
- credentials remote_api::get_credentials(const std::string& scope, const std::string& name) {
- 	std::string user = cfg->get_configvalue(scope+"-login");
- 	std::string pass = cfg->get_configvalue(scope+"-password");
+ credentials remote_api::get_credentials(const std::string& scope,
+ 	const std::string& name)
+ {