diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/diffutils/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/diffutils/package.mk
index b21c218e79..fc1727fbe1 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/diffutils/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/diffutils/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="diffutils"
-PKG_VERSION="3.6"
-PKG_SHA256="d621e8bdd4b573918c8145f7ae61817d1be9deb4c8d2328a65cea8e11d783bd6"
+PKG_VERSION="3.7"
+PKG_SHA256="b3a7a6221c3dc916085f0d205abf6b8e1ba443d4dd965118da364a1dc1cb3a26"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/diffutils/patches/diffutils-002-explicitly-disable-replacing-getopt.patch b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/diffutils/patches/diffutils-002-explicitly-disable-replacing-getopt.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e12ba86e3..0000000000
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/diffutils/patches/diffutils-002-explicitly-disable-replacing-getopt.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils-3.6
-
-Subject: explicitly disable replacing getopt
-
-Explicitly disable replacing getopt to avoid compilation error like below.
-
-  xstrtol-error.c:84:26: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct rpl_option'
-
-diff --git a/m4/getopt.m4 b/m4/getopt.m4
-index 3ebc7b7..8934426 100644
---- a/m4/getopt.m4
-+++ b/m4/getopt.m4
-@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_GETOPT_POSIX],
-     fi
-   ])
-   if test $REPLACE_GETOPT = 1; then
--    dnl Arrange for getopt.h to be created.
--    gl_GETOPT_SUBSTITUTE_HEADER
-+    dnl Explicitly disable replacing getopt
-+    :
-   fi
- ])
- 
--- 
-2.11.0
-