diff --git a/packages/asciinema/build.sh b/packages/asciinema/build.sh
index 3296936bf..112b4f4e7 100644
--- a/packages/asciinema/build.sh
+++ b/packages/asciinema/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://asciinema.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.0.1
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7087b247dae36d04821197bc14ebd4248049592b299c9878d8953c025ac802e4
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
@@ -14,8 +15,8 @@ termux_step_make () {
 }
 
 termux_step_make_install () {
-	export PYTHONPATH=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/python3.6/site-packages/
-	python3.6 setup.py install --prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX --force
+	export PYTHONPATH=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/python3.7/site-packages/
+	python3.7 setup.py install --prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX --force
 }
 
 termux_step_post_massage () {
diff --git a/packages/boost/build.sh b/packages/boost/build.sh
index 09bd13f47..f0229a7e6 100644
--- a/packages/boost/build.sh
+++ b/packages/boost/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://boost.org
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.68.0
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7f6130bc3cf65f56a618888ce9d5ea704fa10b462be126ad053e80e553d6d8b7
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION/source/boost_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION//./_}.tar.bz2
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ termux_step_make_install() {
 
 	./bootstrap.sh
 	echo "using clang : $TERMUX_ARCH : $CXX : <linkflags>-L/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib ; " >> project-config.jam
-	echo "using python : 3.6 : $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/python3 : $TERMUX_PREFIX/include/python3.6m : $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib ;" >> project-config.jam
+	echo "using python : 3.7 : $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/python3 : $TERMUX_PREFIX/include/python3.7m : $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib ;" >> project-config.jam
 
 	if [ "$TERMUX_ARCH" = arm ] || [ "$TERMUX_ARCH" = aarch64 ]; then
 		BOOSTARCH=arm
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ termux_step_make_install() {
 		architecture="$BOOSTARCH" \
 		abi="$BOOSTABI" \
 		address-model="$BOOSTAM" \
+		boost.locale.icu=off \
 		binary-format=elf \
 		link=shared \
 		threading=multi \
@@ -64,5 +66,6 @@ termux_step_make_install() {
 		cxxflags="$CXXFLAGS" \
 		link=shared \
 		threading=multi \
+		boost.locale.icu=off \
 		stage
 }
diff --git a/packages/profanity/build.sh b/packages/profanity/build.sh
index aa3822cc5..ad1c94d08 100644
--- a/packages/profanity/build.sh
+++ b/packages/profanity/build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://profanity.im
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Profanity is a console based XMPP client written in C using ncurses and libstrophe, inspired by Irssi"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.5.1
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="Oliver Schmidhauser @Neo-Oli"
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://profanity.im/profanity-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=e3513713e74ec3363fbdbac2919bdc17e249988780cc5a4589d1425807a7feb8
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS=" --disable-python-plugins"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
-  CPPFLAGS+=" -I$TERMUX_PREFIX/include/python3.6m"
-  LDFLAGS+=" -lpython3.6m"
+  CPPFLAGS+=" -I$TERMUX_PREFIX/include/python3.7m"
+  LDFLAGS+=" -lpython3.7m"
 }
 
 termux_step_post_configure() {
diff --git a/packages/python/Lib-subprocess.py.patch b/packages/python/Lib-subprocess.py.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bea4bbf23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/Lib-subprocess.py.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -u -r ../Python-3.7.1/Lib/subprocess.py ./Lib/subprocess.py
+--- ../Python-3.7.1/Lib/subprocess.py	2018-10-20 06:04:19.000000000 +0000
++++ ./Lib/subprocess.py	2018-10-20 20:17:50.157206343 +0000
+@@ -1389,9 +1389,7 @@
+                 args = list(args)
+ 
+             if shell:
+-                # On Android the default shell is at '/system/bin/sh'.
+-                unix_shell = ('/system/bin/sh' if
+-                          hasattr(sys, 'getandroidapilevel') else '/bin/sh')
++                unix_shell = ('@TERMUX_PREFIX@/bin/sh')
+                 args = [unix_shell, "-c"] + args
+                 if executable:
+                     args[0] = executable
diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index a4f769e91..c01429b95 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Python 3 programming language intended to enable clear p
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses, readline, libffi, openssl, libutil, libbz2, libsqlite, gdbm, ncurses-ui-libs, libcrypt, liblzma"
 # Python.h includes crypt.h:
 TERMUX_PKG_DEVPACKAGE_DEPENDS="libcrypt-dev"
-_MAJOR_VERSION=3.6
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.6
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=d79bc15d456e73a3173a2938f18a17e5149c850ebdedf84a78067f501ee6e16f
+_MAJOR_VERSION=3.7
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.1
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=fa7e2b8e8c9402f192ad56dc4f814089d1c4466c97d780f5e5acc02c04243d6d
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 
 # The flag --with(out)-pymalloc (disable/enable specialized mallocs) is enabled by default and causes m suffix versions of python.
diff --git a/packages/python/setup.py.patch b/packages/python/setup.py.patch
index fcb0cf278..d514538f9 100644
--- a/packages/python/setup.py.patch
+++ b/packages/python/setup.py.patch
@@ -1,26 +1,6 @@
 diff -u -r ../Python-3.5.0/setup.py ./setup.py
 --- ../Python-3.5.0/setup.py	2015-09-13 07:41:26.000000000 -0400
 +++ ./setup.py	2015-11-07 17:31:45.332321322 -0500
-@@ -592,7 +592,8 @@
-                                libraries=math_libs) )
- 
-         # time libraries: librt may be needed for clock_gettime()
--        time_libs = []
-+        #                 math_libs is needed by floatsleep()
-+        time_libs = list(math_libs)
-         lib = sysconfig.get_config_var('TIMEMODULE_LIB')
-         if lib:
-             time_libs.append(lib)
-@@ -651,7 +652,8 @@
-             missing.append('spwd')
- 
-         # select(2); not on ancient System V
--        exts.append( Extension('select', ['selectmodule.c']) )
-+        # selectmodule.c calls the ceil(3) math function
-+        exts.append( Extension('select', ['selectmodule.c'], libraries=math_libs) )
- 
-         # Fred Drake's interface to the Python parser
-         exts.append( Extension('parser', ['parsermodule.c']) )
 @@ -661,7 +663,8 @@
  
          # Lance Ellinghaus's syslog module
diff --git a/packages/python/subprocess.py.patch b/packages/python/subprocess.py.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fb6a5049..000000000
--- a/packages/python/subprocess.py.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../Python-3.4.1/Lib/subprocess.py ./Lib/subprocess.py
---- ../Python-3.4.1/Lib/subprocess.py	2014-05-19 07:19:38.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./Lib/subprocess.py	2014-06-04 11:31:48.708843737 +0200
-@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@
-                 args = list(args)
- 
-             if shell:
--                args = ["/bin/sh", "-c"] + args
-+                args = ["@TERMUX_PREFIX@/bin/sh", "-c"] + args
-                 if executable:
-                     args[0] = executable
- 
diff --git a/packages/ranger/build.sh b/packages/ranger/build.sh
index 257fe3cee..9734e8b15 100644
--- a/packages/ranger/build.sh
+++ b/packages/ranger/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://ranger.github.io/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="File manager with VI key bindings"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.9.2
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=49a2d8dc5fa7b1c0cac0fa72d4ad704fc7107dee36cb9feb325a42754774d363
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/ranger/ranger/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="python, file"
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ termux_step_make() {
 }
 
 termux_step_make_install() {
-        python3.6 setup.py install --prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX --force
+        python3.7 setup.py install --prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX --force
 }
 
 termux_step_post_massage() {
diff --git a/packages/vim-python/build.sh b/packages/vim-python/build.sh
index e1b769c08..eb07de4aa 100755
--- a/packages/vim-python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/vim-python/build.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, vim-runtime, python"
 # vim should only be updated every 50 releases on multiples of 50.
 # Update both vim and vim-python to the same version in one PR.
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=8.1.0450
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=19e30d255f429e1ae6a70d1fe08028e1fd14b257ebac7d4470ed1dbed5142648
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL="https://github.com/vim/vim/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
@@ -37,15 +38,15 @@ TERMUX_PKG_CONFFILES="share/vim/vimrc"
 TERMUX_PKG_CONFLICTS="vim"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+="
 vi_cv_path_python3_pfx=$TERMUX_PREFIX
-vi_cv_var_python3_version=3.6
+vi_cv_var_python3_version=3.7
 --enable-python3interp
---with-python3-config-dir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/python3.6/config-3.6m/
+--with-python3-config-dir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/python3.7/config-3.7m/
 "
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION+=" - with python support"
 # Remove share/vim/vim81 which is in vim-runtime built as a subpackage of vim:
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL+=" share/vim/vim81"
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
-	CPPFLAGS+=" -I${TERMUX_PREFIX}/include/python3.6m"
+	CPPFLAGS+=" -I${TERMUX_PREFIX}/include/python3.7m"
 }
 
 termux_step_pre_configure () {
diff --git a/packages/weechat/build.sh b/packages/weechat/build.sh
index 0eeb963d8..4d6c684f7 100755
--- a/packages/weechat/build.sh
+++ b/packages/weechat/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://weechat.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Fast, light and extensible IRC chat client"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.2
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=8f621d638dc93db27a7865b6c4a67c14376bbd33315579de3998f0e30e84965c
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.3
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=3c5919c23feb40368fae08f3581448c707e1bdb14c835c06c31b78ebadbb2456
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.weechat.org/files/src/weechat-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, libgcrypt, libcurl, libgnutls, libandroid-support"
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="bin/weechat-curses share/man/man1/weechat-headless.1 share/icons"
diff --git a/packages/weechat/cmake-FindPython.cmake.patch b/packages/weechat/cmake-FindPython.cmake.patch
index 6f9d7fa21..0b91d4dff 100644
--- a/packages/weechat/cmake-FindPython.cmake.patch
+++ b/packages/weechat/cmake-FindPython.cmake.patch
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ diff -u -r ../weechat-2.2/cmake/FindPython.cmake ./cmake/FindPython.cmake
 -    endif()
 -  endif()
 +  set(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/bin/python")
-+  set(PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.6m")
++  set(PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.7m")
 +  set(PYTHON_LIBRARY "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/lib")
-+  set(PYTHON_LFLAGS "-Xlinker -export-dynamic -lpython3.6m")
++  set(PYTHON_LFLAGS "-Xlinker -export-dynamic -lpython3.7m")
 +  set(PYTHON_FOUND TRUE)
  
    mark_as_advanced(
diff --git a/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh b/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
index 29b449d88..c1583b979 100755
--- a/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ PACKAGES+=" libglib2.0-dev" # Provides 'glib-genmarshal' which the glib build us
 PACKAGES+=" libtool-bin"
 PACKAGES+=" libncurses5-dev" # Used by mariadb for host build part.
 PACKAGES+=" lzip"
-PACKAGES+=" python3.6"
+PACKAGES+=" python3.7"
 PACKAGES+=" tar"
 PACKAGES+=" unzip"
 PACKAGES+=" m4"