diff --git a/packages/web/curl/package.mk b/packages/web/curl/package.mk
index 27bb50faf8..28433282b2 100644
--- a/packages/web/curl/package.mk
+++ b/packages/web/curl/package.mk
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #   there: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=177557
 
 PKG_NAME="curl"
-PKG_VERSION="7.48.0"
+PKG_VERSION="7.49.1"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
diff --git a/packages/web/curl/patches/curl-01-upstream.patch b/packages/web/curl/patches/curl-01-upstream.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 07922fdefe..0000000000
--- a/packages/web/curl/patches/curl-01-upstream.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-From 240cd84b494e0ffee8ad261c43b927d246cf6be1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:04:48 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] openssl: fix ERR_remove_thread_state() for boringssl/libressl
-
-The removed arg is only done in OpenSSL
-
-Bug: https://twitter.com/xtraemeat/status/712564874098917376
----
- lib/vtls/openssl.c | 4 +++-
- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/lib/vtls/openssl.c b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
-index cbf2d21..b7e4462 100644
---- a/lib/vtls/openssl.c
-+++ b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
-@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@
- 
- #if (OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x10000000L)
- #define HAVE_ERR_REMOVE_THREAD_STATE 1
--#if (OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x10100004L)
-+#if (OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x10100004L) && \
-+  !defined(LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER) && \
-+  !defined(OPENSSL_IS_BORINGSSL)
- /* OpenSSL 1.1.0-pre4 removed the argument! */
- #define HAVE_ERR_REMOVE_THREAD_STATE_NOARG 1
- #endif