diff --git a/packages/readline/build.sh b/packages/readline/build.sh
index d60ed6ea2..4b45f22a5 100644
--- a/packages/readline/build.sh
+++ b/packages/readline/build.sh
@@ -1,36 +1,14 @@
-TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE="https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html"
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in"
-TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses"
-_MAIN_VERSION=7.0
-_PATCH_VERSION=5
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=750d437185286f40a369e1e4f4764eda932b9459b5ec9a731628393dd3d32334
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAIN_VERSION}.${_PATCH_VERSION}
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/readline/readline-${_MAIN_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="8.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=e339f51971478d369f8a053a330a190781acb9864cf4c541060f12078948e461
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/readline/readline-${TERMUX_PKG_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() {
-	local PATCH_CHECKSUMS
-	PATCH_CHECKSUMS[1]=9ac1b3ac2ec7b1bf0709af047f2d7d2a34ccde353684e57c6b47ebca77d7a376
-	PATCH_CHECKSUMS[2]=8747c92c35d5db32eae99af66f17b384abaca961653e185677f9c9a571ed2d58
-	PATCH_CHECKSUMS[3]=9e43aa93378c7e9f7001d8174b1beb948deefa6799b6f581673f465b7d9d4780
-	PATCH_CHECKSUMS[4]=f925683429f20973c552bff6702c74c58c2a38ff6e5cf305a8e847119c5a6b64
-	PATCH_CHECKSUMS[5]=ca159c83706541c6bbe39129a33d63bbd76ac594303f67e4d35678711c51b753
-	for patch_number in $(seq -f '%03g' ${_PATCH_VERSION}); do
-		PATCHFILE=$TERMUX_PKG_CACHEDIR/readline_patch_${patch_number}.patch
-		termux_download \
-			"https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/readline/readline-7.0-patches/readline70-$patch_number" \
-			$PATCHFILE \
-			${PATCH_CHECKSUMS[patch_number]}
-		patch -p0 -i $PATCHFILE
-	done
-
-	CFLAGS+=" -fexceptions"
-}
-
 termux_step_post_make_install() {
 	mkdir -p $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig
 	cp readline.pc $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/
diff --git a/packages/readline/rlconf.h.patch b/packages/readline/rlconf.h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..03156a5a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/readline/rlconf.h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- readline-8.0/rlconf.h	2017-02-21 20:55:30.000000000 +0530
++++ readline-8.0-mod/rlconf.h	2019-02-20 20:45:45.583654990 +0530
+@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
+ #define DEFAULT_INPUTRC "~/.inputrc"
+ 
+ /* The ultimate last-ditch filename for an init file -- system-wide. */
+-#define SYS_INPUTRC "/etc/inputrc"
++#define SYS_INPUTRC "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/etc/inputrc"
+ 
+ /* If defined, expand tabs to spaces. */
+ #define DISPLAY_TABS
diff --git a/packages/readline/sys_inputrc_path.patch b/packages/readline/sys_inputrc_path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d54db9fc..000000000
--- a/packages/readline/sys_inputrc_path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- ../readline-6.2/rlconf.h	2009-01-04 20:32:33.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./rlconf.h	2014-02-04 18:30:16.000000000 +0100
-@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
- #define DEFAULT_INPUTRC "~/.inputrc"
- 
- /* The ultimate last-ditch filenname for an init file -- system-wide. */
--#define SYS_INPUTRC "/etc/inputrc"
-+#define SYS_INPUTRC "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/etc/inputrc"
- 
- /* If defined, expand tabs to spaces. */
- #define DISPLAY_TABS