diff --git a/packages/valac/build.sh b/packages/valac/build.sh
index ae0574c75..4352f2f0a 100644
--- a/packages/valac/build.sh
+++ b/packages/valac/build.sh
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="C# like language for the GObject system"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="LGPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="Vishal Biswas @vishalbiswas"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="clang, glib-dev, pkg-config"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.40.8
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=5c35e087a7054e9f0a514a0c1f1d0a0d7cf68d3e43c1dbeb840f9b0d815c0fa5
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.44.3
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=8553b422484af88be1685d8b47f7b0df36ae4477c3e77e89ab22276ffed1eae9
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4}/vala-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-cgraph=no"
 
 termux_step_post_make_install() {
 	cd $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib
-	ln -s -f vala-0.40/libvalaccodegen.so libvalaccodegen.so
+	ln -s -f vala-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4}/libvalaccodegen.so libvalaccodegen.so
 }
diff --git a/packages/valac/configure.patch b/packages/valac/configure.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ff341061e..000000000
--- a/packages/valac/configure.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../vala-0.38.7/configure ./configure
---- ../vala-0.38.7/configure	2018-02-04 10:28:51.000000000 +0000
-+++ ./configure	2018-02-05 11:39:59.451002816 +0000
-@@ -12793,10 +12793,7 @@
- LIBADD="$LIBADD $LIBGVC_LIBS"
- CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $LIBGVC_CFLAGS"
- if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then :
--  { { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: error: in \`$ac_pwd':" >&5
--$as_echo "$as_me: error: in \`$ac_pwd':" >&2;}
--as_fn_error $? "cannot run test program while cross compiling
--See \`config.log' for more details" "$LINENO" 5; }
-+  have_cgraph=yes
- else
-   cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
- /* end confdefs.h.  */