diff --git a/packages/readline/build.sh b/packages/readline/build.sh
index 76da3e1c9..233e9488a 100644
--- a/packages/readline/build.sh
+++ b/packages/readline/build.sh
@@ -4,15 +4,27 @@ TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="bash (<< 5.0), readline-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="readline-dev"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="8.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
+_MAIN_VERSION=8.0
+_PATCH_VERSION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=$_MAIN_VERSION.$_PATCH_VERSION
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=e339f51971478d369f8a053a330a190781acb9864cf4c541060f12078948e461
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/readline/readline-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/readline/readline-${_MAIN_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-curses --enable-multibyte bash_cv_wcwidth_broken=no"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="SHLIB_LIBS=-lncursesw"
 TERMUX_PKG_CONFFILES="etc/inputrc"
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
+	declare -A PATCH_CHECKSUMS
+	PATCH_CHECKSUMS[001]=d8e5e98933cf5756f862243c0601cb69d3667bb33f2c7b751fe4e40b2c3fd069
+	for PATCH_NUM in $(seq -f '%03g' ${_PATCH_VERSION}); do
+		PATCHFILE=$TERMUX_PKG_CACHEDIR/readline_patch_${PATCH_NUM}.patch
+		termux_download \
+			"http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/readline/readline-$_MAIN_VERSION-patches/readline${_MAIN_VERSION/./}-$PATCH_NUM" \
+			$PATCHFILE \
+			${PATCH_CHECKSUMS[$PATCH_NUM]}
+		patch -p0 -i $PATCHFILE
+	done
+
 	CFLAGS+=" -fexceptions"
 }