diff --git a/packages/network/connman/package.mk b/packages/network/connman/package.mk
index 733f670734..df5a8c9707 100644
--- a/packages/network/connman/package.mk
+++ b/packages/network/connman/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="connman"
-PKG_VERSION="9c781b75657bb72a9d65ba7cc73aa5111ae13eb2" # pre 1.38
-PKG_SHA256="384ac276b593e919614f8615da8641dac4268c8e6ebc1166b78b3d260d5ca242"
+PKG_VERSION="1ee420ace2b8edb0d4025f469aaa3d00d220dc98" # 1.38
+PKG_SHA256="2688c7d1f4b947f4b616157bad9d50234d86d5151a1e1a9e8d51acad2b1481c6"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.connman.net"
 PKG_URL="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/connman/connman.git/snapshot/connman-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/network/connman/patches/connman-08-fix_for_building_with_old_headers.patch b/packages/network/connman/patches/connman-08-fix_for_building_with_old_headers.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1bf81696dd..0000000000
--- a/packages/network/connman/patches/connman-08-fix_for_building_with_old_headers.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/src/shared/mnlg.c b/src/shared/mnlg.c
-index 6b02059d..b2f71941 100644
---- a/src/shared/mnlg.c
-+++ b/src/shared/mnlg.c
-@@ -28,6 +28,22 @@
- #define ARRAY_SIZE(a) (sizeof(a)/sizeof((a)[0]))
- #endif
- 
-+#ifndef NETLINK_CAP_ACK
-+#define NETLINK_CAP_ACK 10
-+#endif /* NETLINK_CAP_ACK */
-+/* support for extack if compilation headers are too old */
-+#ifndef NETLINK_EXT_ACK
-+#define NETLINK_EXT_ACK 11
-+enum nlmsgerr_attrs {
-+	NLMSGERR_ATTR_UNUSED,
-+	NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG,
-+	NLMSGERR_ATTR_OFFS,
-+	NLMSGERR_ATTR_COOKIE,
-+
-+	__NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX,
-+	NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX = __NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX - 1
-+};
-+#endif
- 
- struct mnlg_socket {
- 	struct mnl_socket *nl;