diff --git a/packages/busybox/arch-i386-Makefile.patch b/packages/busybox/arch-i386-Makefile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e48e1b6a..000000000
--- a/packages/busybox/arch-i386-Makefile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../busybox-1.24.1/arch/i386/Makefile ./arch/i386/Makefile
---- ../busybox-1.24.1/arch/i386/Makefile	2015-07-12 22:18:46.000000000 -0400
-+++ ./arch/i386/Makefile	2015-12-25 19:05:56.660211464 -0500
-@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@
- 
- # -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is essential in preventing gcc 4.2.x
- # from aligning stack to 16 bytes. (Which is gcc's way of supporting SSE).
--CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-march=i386 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2,)
-+# This fixes crashing e.g. running busybox sed -e "s#'#'\"'\"'#g"
-+# on the x86_64 emulator.
-+# CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-march=i386 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2,)
diff --git a/packages/busybox/build.sh b/packages/busybox/build.sh
index e7c82e2e0..dcec853a9 100755
--- a/packages/busybox/build.sh
+++ b/packages/busybox/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://busybox.net/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable"
 TERMUX_PKG_ESSENTIAL=yes
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.28.4
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=e3c14a3699dc7e82fed397392957afc78e37bdf25398ac38ead6e84621b2ae6a
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.29.1
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=fc250730ea16d28839bfecda3c431683fa6bd4273ffca6b632cbeb3556c914c3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
 
diff --git a/packages/busybox/busybox.config b/packages/busybox/busybox.config
index 7460a5615..748169486 100644
--- a/packages/busybox/busybox.config
+++ b/packages/busybox/busybox.config
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG=y
 # Build Options
 #
 # CONFIG_STATIC is not set
+CONFIG_STACK_OPTIMIZATION_386=n
 CONFIG_PIE=y
 # CONFIG_NOMMU is not set
 # CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX is not set
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ CONFIG_MD5_SMALL=1
 CONFIG_SHA3_SMALL=1
 # CONFIG_FEATURE_FAST_TOP is not set
 # CONFIG_FEATURE_ETC_NETWORKS is not set
+CONFIG_FEATURE_ETC_SERVICES=n
 CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_MAX_LEN=1024
@@ -102,6 +104,7 @@ CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_VI=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_HISTORY=255
 CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_SAVEHISTORY=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_SAVE_ON_EXIT=y
+CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_WINCH=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_REVERSE_SEARCH=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_TAB_COMPLETION=y
 # CONFIG_FEATURE_USERNAME_COMPLETION is not set
@@ -140,6 +143,7 @@ CONFIG_LZMA=y
 CONFIG_UNXZ=y
 CONFIG_XZ=y
 CONFIG_BZIP2=y
+CONFIG_BZIP2_SMALL=8
 CONFIG_CPIO=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_CPIO_O=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_CPIO_P=y
@@ -288,6 +292,7 @@ CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_SLEEP=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_FLOAT_SLEEP=y
 CONFIG_SORT=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_SORT_BIG=y
+CONFIG_FEATURE_SORT_OPTIMIZE_MEMORY=n
 CONFIG_SPLIT=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_SPLIT_FANCY=y
 # CONFIG_STAT is not set
@@ -672,6 +677,8 @@ CONFIG_FEATURE_CROND_SPECIAL_TIMES=y
 CONFIG_LESS=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_LESS_MAXLINES=9999999
 CONFIG_FEATURE_LESS_BRACKETS=y
+CONFIG_FEATURE_LESS_RAW=y
+CONFIG_FEATURE_LESS_ENV=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_LESS_FLAGS=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_LESS_MARKS=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_LESS_REGEXP=y
@@ -859,6 +866,7 @@ CONFIG_PSCAN=y
 CONFIG_ROUTE=y
 # CONFIG_SLATTACH is not set
 CONFIG_SSL_CLIENT=n
+CONFIG_TC=n
 CONFIG_TCPSVD=y
 CONFIG_TELNET=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_TTYPE=y
@@ -988,6 +996,7 @@ CONFIG_RUNSV=y
 CONFIG_RUNSVDIR=y
 # CONFIG_FEATURE_RUNSVDIR_LOG is not set
 CONFIG_SV=y
+CONFIG_SVOK=n
 CONFIG_SVC=n
 CONFIG_SVLOGD=y
 CONFIG_CHPST=y
diff --git a/packages/busybox/missing_syscalls.c.patch b/packages/busybox/missing_syscalls.c.patch
index 75bba7d09..bf621a6a0 100644
--- a/packages/busybox/missing_syscalls.c.patch
+++ b/packages/busybox/missing_syscalls.c.patch
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 We have patched the ndk header to include getsid().
 
-diff -u -r ../busybox-1.22.1/libbb/missing_syscalls.c ./libbb/missing_syscalls.c
---- ../busybox-1.22.1/libbb/missing_syscalls.c	2014-01-09 19:15:44.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./libbb/missing_syscalls.c	2014-07-08 15:57:13.545408937 +0200
-@@ -11,11 +11,6 @@
- #include "libbb.h"
- 
+diff -u -r ../busybox-1.29.1/libbb/missing_syscalls.c ./libbb/missing_syscalls.c
+--- ../busybox-1.29.1/libbb/missing_syscalls.c	2018-07-02 11:23:06.000000000 +0000
++++ ./libbb/missing_syscalls.c	2018-07-22 23:12:25.751499056 +0000
+@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@
  #if defined(ANDROID) || defined(__ANDROID__)
+ /*# include <linux/timex.h> - for struct timex, but may collide with <time.h> */
+ # include <sys/syscall.h>
 -pid_t getsid(pid_t pid)
 -{
 -	return syscall(__NR_getsid, pid);
 -}
--
+ 
  int stime(const time_t *t)
  {
- 	struct timeval tv;