diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/meta
index fce7c8dba1..5f7d7400a2 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/meta
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PKG_NAME="binutils"
-PKG_VERSION="2.20.51.0.11"
+PKG_VERSION="2.21.51.0.1"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/patches/binutils-2.20.51.0.11-binutils_zlib.patch b/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/patches/binutils-2.20.51.0.11-binutils_zlib.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 74f3e90c54..0000000000
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/patches/binutils-2.20.51.0.11-binutils_zlib.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- binutils-2.20.51.0.11/bfd/compress.c.orig	2010-08-11 23:52:42.000000000 +0200
-+++ binutils-2.20.51.0.11/bfd/compress.c	2010-09-26 11:08:50.196564435 +0200
-@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
-   bfd_set_error (bfd_error_invalid_operation);
-   return FALSE;
- #else
--  bfd_size_type compressed_size;
-+  uLong compressed_size;
-   bfd_byte *compressed_buffer;
- 
-   compressed_size = compressBound (uncompressed_size) + 12;
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/patches/binutils-2.20.51.0.11-multi_os_directory.patch b/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/patches/binutils-2.21.51.0.1-multi_os_directory.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/patches/binutils-2.20.51.0.11-multi_os_directory.patch
rename to packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/patches/binutils-2.21.51.0.1-multi_os_directory.patch