diff --git a/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk b/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
index 60f3d5b428..ba71965b0a 100644
--- a/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="meson"
-PKG_VERSION="0.60.3"
-PKG_SHA256="87ca5fa9358a01864529392bd64e027158eb94afca7c7766b1866ef27eccb98e"
+PKG_VERSION="0.61.1"
+PKG_SHA256="feb2cefb325b437dbf36146df7c6b87688ddff0b0205caa31dc64055c6da410c"
 PKG_LICENSE="Apache"
 PKG_SITE="http://mesonbuild.com"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/${PKG_VERSION}/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/meson/patches/meson-0.60.x-revert-9445.patch b/packages/python/devel/meson/patches/meson-0.60.x-revert-9445.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0233b98dab..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/devel/meson/patches/meson-0.60.x-revert-9445.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-[REVERT] [PATCH] i18n: merge_file() deprecate positional arguments
-
-[REVERT] reenable hard failure
-
-They always have been ignored but it became an hard error with no
-deprecation period in 0.60.0. Since it breaks some GNOME projects,
-deprecate for now and keep it removed for 0.61.0.
-
-diff --git a/mesonbuild/modules/i18n.py b/mesonbuild/modules/i18n.py
-index 7c6f0f4dab6..975fbf63b0b 100644
---- a/mesonbuild/modules/i18n.py
-+++ b/mesonbuild/modules/i18n.py
-@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
- from .. import mlog
- from ..interpreter.type_checking import CT_BUILD_BY_DEFAULT, CT_INPUT_KW, CT_INSTALL_DIR_KW, CT_INSTALL_TAG_KW, CT_OUTPUT_KW, INSTALL_KW, NoneType, in_set_validator
- from ..interpreterbase import FeatureNew
--from ..interpreterbase.decorators import ContainerTypeInfo, KwargInfo, typed_kwargs, typed_pos_args
-+from ..interpreterbase.decorators import ContainerTypeInfo, KwargInfo, noPosargs, typed_kwargs, typed_pos_args
- from ..scripts.gettext import read_linguas
- 
- if T.TYPE_CHECKING:
-@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
-         return [path.join(src_dir, d) for d in dirs]
- 
-     @FeatureNew('i18n.merge_file', '0.37.0')
-+    @noPosargs
-     @typed_kwargs(
-         'i18n.merge_file',
-         CT_BUILD_BY_DEFAULT,
-@@ -142,9 +143,6 @@
-         KwargInfo('type', str, default='xml', validator=in_set_validator({'xml', 'desktop'})),
-     )
-     def merge_file(self, state: 'ModuleState', args: T.List['TYPE_var'], kwargs: 'MergeFile') -> ModuleReturnValue:
--        if args:
--            mlog.deprecation('i18n.merge_file does not take any positional arguments. '
--                             'This will become a hard error in the next Meson release.')
-         if not shutil.which('xgettext'):
-             self.nogettext_warning()
-             return ModuleReturnValue(None, [])