diff --git a/packages/databases/mariadb-connector-c/package.mk b/packages/databases/mariadb-connector-c/package.mk
index 9890c7ccb5..157aff6072 100644
--- a/packages/databases/mariadb-connector-c/package.mk
+++ b/packages/databases/mariadb-connector-c/package.mk
@@ -2,16 +2,15 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="mariadb-connector-c"
-PKG_VERSION="3.0.2"
-PKG_SHA256="f44f436fc35e081db3a56516de9e3bb11ae96838e75d58910be28ddd2bc56d88"
+PKG_VERSION="3.0.6"
+PKG_SHA256="46181f8c95c096ac1aa6cb0ca80f4ed0e746873cfd6af84f3bac925d7e2cd091"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://mariadb.org/"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c/archive/v$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib openssl"
-PKG_SECTION="database"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="mariadb-connector: library to conntect to mariadb/mysql database server"
 PKG_LONGDESC="mariadb-connector: library to conntect to mariadb/mysql database server"
+PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-gold"
 
 PKG_CMAKE_OPTS_TARGET="-DWITH_EXTERNAL_ZLIB=ON
                        -DAUTH_CLEARTEXT=STATIC
diff --git a/packages/databases/mariadb-connector-c/patches/001_PR39-fix-static.patch b/packages/databases/mariadb-connector-c/patches/001_PR39-fix-static.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1af44c8336..0000000000
--- a/packages/databases/mariadb-connector-c/patches/001_PR39-fix-static.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-From 642320e2cf5d8283b36cd92a0e4d2c93cf410775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Sascha=20K=C3=BChndel?= <dev@inusasha.de>
-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 22:00:40 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] fix typo in plugins.cmake
-
----
- cmake/plugins.cmake | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/cmake/plugins.cmake b/cmake/plugins.cmake
-index cca6836c..5066a300 100644
---- a/cmake/plugins.cmake
-+++ b/cmake/plugins.cmake
-@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ REGISTER_PLUGIN("AUTH_NATIVE" "${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/plugins/auth/my_auth.c" "native_
- REGISTER_PLUGIN("AUTH_OLDPASSWORD" "${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/plugins/auth/old_password.c" "old_password_client_plugin" "STATIC" "" 1)
- SET(DIALOG_SOURCES ${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/plugins/auth/dialog.c ${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/libmariadb/get_password.c)
- REGISTER_PLUGIN("AUTH_DIALOG" "${DIALOG_SOURCES}" "auth_dialog_plugin" "DYNAMIC" dialog 1)
--REGISTER_PLUGIN("AUTH_CLEARTEXT" "${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/plugins/auth/mariadb_clear_text.c" "auth_cleartext_plugin" "DYNAMIC" "mysql_clear_password" 1)
-+REGISTER_PLUGIN("AUTH_CLEARTEXT" "${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/plugins/auth/mariadb_cleartext.c" "auth_cleartext_plugin" "DYNAMIC" "mysql_clear_password" 1)
- IF(WIN32)
-     SET(GSSAPI_SOURCES ${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/plugins/auth/auth_gssapi_client.c ${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/plugins/auth/sspi_client.c ${CC_SOURCE_DIR}/plugins/auth/sspi_errmsg.c)
-     REGISTER_PLUGIN("AUTH_GSSAPI" "${GSSAPI_SOURCES}" "auth_gssapi_plugin" "DYNAMIC" "auth_gssapi_client" 1)