diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/meta b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/meta
index 6e199e33d5..8b6a68ff3d 100644
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/meta
+++ b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="alsa-utils"
-PKG_VERSION="1.0.26"
+PKG_VERSION="1.0.27"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/patches/alsa-utils-1.0.26-automake_1.13.patch b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/patches/alsa-utils-1.0.26-automake_1.13.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f7c99358c..0000000000
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/patches/alsa-utils-1.0.26-automake_1.13.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur alsa-utils-1.0.26-old/configure.in alsa-utils-1.0.26-new/configure.in
---- alsa-utils-1.0.26-old/configure.in	2012-09-06 01:45:44.000000000 -0700
-+++ alsa-utils-1.0.26-new/configure.in	2012-12-29 08:01:59.000000000 -0800
-@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
-   TESTSOUND="$dir/test.wav")
- AC_SUBST(TESTSOUND)
- 
--AM_CONFIG_HEADER(include/aconfig.h)
-+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(include/aconfig.h)
- 
- dnl Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics.
- AC_C_CONST