diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/gdk-pixbuf/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/gdk-pixbuf/package.mk
index b89b7df98b..9f742841ed 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/gdk-pixbuf/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/gdk-pixbuf/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="gdk-pixbuf"
-PKG_VERSION="2.36.12"
-PKG_SHA256="fff85cf48223ab60e3c3c8318e2087131b590fd6f1737e42cb3759a3b427a334"
+PKG_VERSION="2.38.0"
+PKG_SHA256="dd50973c7757bcde15de6bcd3a6d462a445efd552604ae6435a0532fbbadae47"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
 PKG_URL="https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdk-pixbuf/${PKG_VERSION:0:4}/gdk-pixbuf-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/gtk3/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/gtk3/package.mk
index ad764698c1..169cded7f0 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/gtk3/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/gtk3/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="gtk3"
-PKG_VERSION="3.22.30"
-PKG_SHA256="a1a4a5c12703d4e1ccda28333b87ff462741dc365131fbc94c218ae81d9a6567"
+PKG_VERSION="3.24.4"
+PKG_SHA256="d84f59ff02a87cc90c9df4a572a13eca4e3506e2bf511e2b9cbdb4526fa0cb9c"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
 PKG_URL="https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/${PKG_VERSION:0:4}/gtk+-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-cups \
 
 pre_configure_target() {
   LIBS="$LIBS -lXcursor"
-  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(get_build_dir pango)/.$TARGET_NAME"
-  export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$(get_build_dir pango) -L$(get_build_dir pango)/.$TARGET_NAME/pango"
+  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(get_build_dir pango)/.$TARGET_NAME/meson-private:$(get_build_dir gdk-pixbuf)/.$TARGET_NAME/meson-private:$(get_build_dir shared-mime-info)/.$TARGET_NAME"
+  export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$(get_build_dir pango) -I$(get_build_dir pango)/.$TARGET_NAME -L$(get_build_dir pango)/.$TARGET_NAME/pango"
+  export GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES=glib-compile-resources GLIB_MKENUMS=glib-mkenums GLIB_GENMARSHAL=glib-genmarshal
 }
 
 makeinstall_target() {
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/pango/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/pango/package.mk
index 96cb1188c0..8ee26acc0b 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/pango/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/pango/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="pango"
-PKG_VERSION="1.42.1"
-PKG_SHA256="915a6756b298578ff27c7a6393f8c2e62e6e382f9411f2504d7af1a13c7bce32"
+PKG_VERSION="1.43.0"
+PKG_SHA256="d2c0c253a5328a0eccb00cdd66ce2c8713fabd2c9836000b6e22a8b06ba3ddd2"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.pango.org/"
 PKG_URL="https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pango/${PKG_VERSION:0:4}/pango-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
diff --git a/packages/compress/libarchive/package.mk b/packages/compress/libarchive/package.mk
index ea25b94429..9d4bb6f7d6 100644
--- a/packages/compress/libarchive/package.mk
+++ b/packages/compress/libarchive/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libarchive"
-PKG_VERSION="3.3.2"
-PKG_SHA256="ed2dbd6954792b2c054ccf8ec4b330a54b85904a80cef477a1c74643ddafa0ce"
+PKG_VERSION="3.3.3"
+PKG_SHA256="ba7eb1781c9fbbae178c4c6bad1c6eb08edab9a1496c64833d1715d022b30e2e"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://www.libarchive.org"
 PKG_URL="https://www.libarchive.org/downloads/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
@@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="A multi-format archive and compression library."
 
-PKG_CMAKE_OPTS_TARGET="-DENABLE_SHARED=0 -DENABLE_STATIC=1 -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=1 -DENABLE_EXPAT=0 -DENABLE_ICONV=0 -DENABLE_LIBXML2=0 -DENABLE_LZO=1 -DENABLE_TEST=0 -DENABLE_COVERAGE=0"
+PKG_CMAKE_OPTS_TARGET="-DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=1 -DENABLE_EXPAT=0 -DENABLE_ICONV=0 -DENABLE_LIBXML2=0 -DENABLE_LZO=1 -DENABLE_TEST=0 -DENABLE_COVERAGE=0"
 
 post_makeinstall_target() {
   rm -rf $INSTALL
+
+  # delete the shared library as we only want static
+  rm $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib/libarchive.so*
 }
diff --git a/packages/compress/libarchive/patches/libarchive-01-die-Werror.patch b/packages/compress/libarchive/patches/libarchive-01-die-Werror.patch
index 9a831f2a2e..d3410e234f 100644
--- a/packages/compress/libarchive/patches/libarchive-01-die-Werror.patch
+++ b/packages/compress/libarchive/patches/libarchive-01-die-Werror.patch
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
-From f3c2f0ca7916288c72da07a2c3352b85b8f96e55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From cd88d92aa23f6f32aedd54f9a83c118ede4ee799 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Arne Morten Kvarving <arne.morten.kvarving@sintef.no>
 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:42:40 +0100
 Subject: [PATCH] die Werror
 
+---
+ CMakeLists.txt | 8 ++++----
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 73bf07b..08e8f49 100644
+index 80871bc..9bd5165 100644
 --- a/CMakeLists.txt
 +++ b/CMakeLists.txt
 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ IF (CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "^GNU$")
@@ -26,7 +29,7 @@ index 73bf07b..08e8f49 100644
    SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG} -Wextra")
    SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG} -Wunused")
    SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG} -Wshadow")
-@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
+@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ IF (CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "^XL$")
    SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG} -qflag=w:w")
    SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG} -qinfo=pro:use")
  ENDIF(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "^XL$")
@@ -35,3 +38,15 @@ index 73bf07b..08e8f49 100644
    #################################################################
    # Set compile flags for debug build.
    # This is added into CMAKE_C_FLAGS when CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is "Debug"
+@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ IF (MSVC)
+   #################################################################
+   # Set compile flags for release build.
+   SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE} /Oi")
+-ENDIF (MSVC)
++ENDIF (0)
+ 
+ # Enable CTest/CDash support
+ include(CTest)
+-- 
+2.7.4
+
diff --git a/packages/compress/libarchive/patches/libarchive-02-static-please.patch b/packages/compress/libarchive/patches/libarchive-02-static-please.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fb2bbc275a..0000000000
--- a/packages/compress/libarchive/patches/libarchive-02-static-please.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- libarchive/libarchive/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ libarchive/libarchive/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -224,9 +224,9 @@
- ENDIF()
- 
- # Libarchive is a shared library
--ADD_LIBRARY(archive SHARED ${libarchive_SOURCES} ${include_HEADERS})
-+ADD_LIBRARY(archive STATIC ${libarchive_SOURCES} ${include_HEADERS})
- TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(archive ${ADDITIONAL_LIBS})
--SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(archive PROPERTIES SOVERSION ${SOVERSION})
-+SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(archive PROPERTIES COMPILE_DEFINITIONS LIBARCHIVE_STATIC)
- 
- # archive_static is a static library
- ADD_LIBRARY(archive_static STATIC ${libarchive_SOURCES} ${include_HEADERS})
diff --git a/packages/debug/gdb/package.mk b/packages/debug/gdb/package.mk
index 10c51b7229..ffc3e7c934 100644
--- a/packages/debug/gdb/package.mk
+++ b/packages/debug/gdb/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="gdb"
-PKG_VERSION="8.1"
-PKG_SHA256="af61a0263858e69c5dce51eab26662ff3d2ad9aa68da9583e8143b5426be4b34"
+PKG_VERSION="8.2.1"
+PKG_SHA256="0a6a432907a03c5c8eaad3c3cffd50c00a40c3a5e3c4039440624bae703f2202"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gdb/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/binutils/package.mk b/packages/devel/binutils/package.mk
index 19c4a738e1..ea5f57e296 100644
--- a/packages/devel/binutils/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/binutils/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="binutils"
-PKG_VERSION="2.31.1"
-PKG_SHA256="e88f8d36bd0a75d3765a4ad088d819e35f8d7ac6288049780e2fefcad18dde88"
+PKG_VERSION="2.32"
+PKG_SHA256="9b0d97b3d30df184d302bced12f976aa1e5fbf4b0be696cdebc6cca30411a46e"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/binutils/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/cmake/package.mk b/packages/devel/cmake/package.mk
index 97eac13311..a2a1c145ee 100644
--- a/packages/devel/cmake/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/cmake/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="cmake"
-PKG_VERSION="3.13.2"
-PKG_SHA256="c925e7d2c5ba511a69f43543ed7b4182a7d446c274c7480d0e42cd933076ae25"
+PKG_VERSION="3.13.4"
+PKG_SHA256="fdd928fee35f472920071d1c7f1a6a2b72c9b25e04f7a37b409349aef3f20e9b"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.cmake.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://www.cmake.org/files/v${PKG_VERSION%.*}/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/elfutils/package.mk b/packages/devel/elfutils/package.mk
index 6a2cedbc36..7b67dd8e21 100644
--- a/packages/devel/elfutils/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/elfutils/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="elfutils"
-PKG_VERSION="0.173"
-PKG_SHA256="b76d8c133f68dad46250f5c223482c8299d454a69430d9aa5c19123345a000ff"
+PKG_VERSION="0.175"
+PKG_SHA256="f7ef925541ee32c6d15ae5cb27da5f119e01a5ccdbe9fe57bf836730d7b7a65b"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://sourceware.org/elfutils/"
 PKG_URL="https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/packages/devel/flatbuffers/package.mk b/packages/devel/flatbuffers/package.mk
index 7e6f7ea7f8..cf5ee8a38f 100644
--- a/packages/devel/flatbuffers/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/flatbuffers/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="flatbuffers"
-PKG_VERSION="1.9.0"
-PKG_SHA256="5ca5491e4260cacae30f1a5786d109230db3f3a6e5a0eb45d0d0608293d247e3"
+PKG_VERSION="1.10.0"
+PKG_SHA256="3714e3db8c51e43028e10ad7adffb9a36fc4aa5b1a363c2d0c4303dd1be59a7c"
 PKG_LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 PKG_SITE="https://github.com/google/flatbuffers"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/archive/v$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/flex/package.mk b/packages/devel/flex/package.mk
index 091e4c2cfa..b186f9f4ca 100644
--- a/packages/devel/flex/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/flex/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="flex"
-PKG_VERSION="2.5.39"
-PKG_SHA256="add2b55f3bc38cb512b48fad7d72f43b11ef244487ff25fc00aabec1e32b617f"
+PKG_VERSION="2.6.0"
+PKG_SHA256="24e611ef5a4703a191012f80c1027dc9d12555183ce0ecd46f3636e587e9b8e9"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://flex.sourceforge.net/"
 PKG_URL="$SOURCEFORGE_SRC/flex/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/packages/devel/flex/patches/flex-002-nodocs.patch b/packages/devel/flex/patches/flex-002-nodocs.patch
index ebe9089ab3..9ed2daa2c3 100644
--- a/packages/devel/flex/patches/flex-002-nodocs.patch
+++ b/packages/devel/flex/patches/flex-002-nodocs.patch
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @@ -117,7 +117,6 @@
  SUBDIRS = \
  	lib \
- 	. \
+ 	src \
 -	doc \
  	examples \
  	po \
diff --git a/packages/devel/fribidi/package.mk b/packages/devel/fribidi/package.mk
index 83dc8ab006..8079ea2651 100644
--- a/packages/devel/fribidi/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/fribidi/package.mk
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="fribidi"
-PKG_VERSION="1.0.1"
-PKG_SHA256="c1b182d70590b6cdb5545bab8149de33b966800f27f2d9365c68917ed5a174e4"
+PKG_VERSION="1.0.5"
+PKG_SHA256="6a64f2a687f5c4f203a46fa659f43dd43d1f8b845df8d723107e8a7e6158e4ce"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://fribidi.freedesktop.org/"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/releases/download/v$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A bidirectional algorithm library."
+PKG_TOOLCHAIN="configure"
 PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="+pic"
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-shared \
diff --git a/packages/devel/fribidi/patches/fribidi-001-PR88.patch b/packages/devel/fribidi/patches/fribidi-001-PR88.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fed4c23032
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/fribidi/patches/fribidi-001-PR88.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+From 96b735d2ca4b59bd0e9211c5f445c804f9e3804a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Heiko Becker <heirecka@exherbo.org>
+Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 20:57:11 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Build generator executables natively
+
+They are run during the build and not installed in the end. Without
+this one gets the following error from meson: "ERROR: Can not use
+target gen-unicode-version as a generator because it is cross-built
+and no exe wrapper is defined. You might want to set it to native
+instead."
+
+Closes #87.
+---
+ gen.tab/meson.build | 6 ++++--
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/gen.tab/meson.build b/gen.tab/meson.build
+index 6006d98..8c21e98 100644
+--- a/gen.tab/meson.build
++++ b/gen.tab/meson.build
+@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ gen_unicode_version = executable('gen-unicode-version',
+   'gen-unicode-version.c',
+   include_directories: incs,
+   c_args: native_args,
+-  install: false)
++  install: false,
++  native: true)
+ 
+ fribidi_unicode_version_h = custom_target('fribidi-unicode-version.h',
+   input: files('unidata/ReadMe.txt', 'unidata/BidiMirroring.txt'),
+@@ -67,7 +68,8 @@ foreach tab : tabs
+     gen_prog_src, 'packtab.c',
+     include_directories: incs,
+     c_args: native_args,
+-    install: false)
++    install: false,
++    native: true)
+ 
+   tab_inc_file = custom_target(gen_prog_name,
+     input: gen_prog_inputs,
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
index a6ee22122a..7fcc34a056 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
@@ -3,44 +3,48 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="glib"
-PKG_VERSION="2.53.5"
-PKG_SHA256="991421f41a4ed4cc1637e5f9db0d03fd236d2cbd19f3c5b097a343bec5126602"
+PKG_VERSION="2.59.1"
+PKG_SHA256="d11f1ca55ccd00dd0abf800c2f42d9cc5e3803be321ff6bc79eb3ce2ca1863f0"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/${PKG_VERSION%.*}/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib libffi Python2:host util-linux"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="libffi:host pcre:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="libffi:host Python3:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain pcre zlib libffi Python3:host util-linux"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A library which includes support routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation."
-PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"
+PKG_TOOLCHAIN="meson"
 
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="PCRE_LIBS=-l:libpcre.a \
-                         --enable-static \
-                         --disable-shared \
-                         --disable-libmount \
-                         --with-python=python"
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="ac_cv_func_snprintf_c99=yes \
-                           ac_cv_func_vsnprintf_c99=yes \
-                           glib_cv_stack_grows=no \
-                           glib_cv_uscore=no \
-                           glib_cv_va_val_copy=no \
-                           --disable-selinux \
-                           --disable-fam \
-                           --enable-xattr \
-                           --disable-libelf \
-                           --disable-gtk-doc \
-                           --disable-gtk-doc-html \
-                           --disable-man \
-                           --disable-dtrace \
-                           --disable-systemtap \
-                           --enable-Bsymbolic \
-                           --with-gnu-ld \
-                           --with-threads=posix \
-                           --with-pcre=internal \
-                           --with-python=python"
+PKG_MESON_OPTS_HOST="-Ddefault_library=static \
+                     -Dinternal_pcre=true \
+                     -Dinstalled_tests=false \
+                     -Dlibmount=false"
+
+PKG_MESON_OPTS_TARGET="-Ddefault_library=shared \
+                       -Dinternal_pcre=false \
+                       -Dinstalled_tests=false \
+                       -Dselinux=disabled \
+                       -Dfam=false \
+                       -Dxattr=true \
+                       -Dgtk_doc=false \
+                       -Dman=false \
+                       -Ddtrace=false \
+                       -Dsystemtap=false \
+                       -Dbsymbolic_functions=true \
+                       -Dforce_posix_threads=true"
+
+PKG_MESON_PROPERTIES_TARGET="
+have_c99_vsnprintf=false
+have_c99_snprintf=false
+growing_stack=false
+va_val_copy=false"
+
+pre_configure_target() {
+  LDFLAGS+=" -lz"
+}
 
 post_makeinstall_target() {
   rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/bin
   rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/gdbus-2.0
   rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/glib-2.0
+  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/installed-tests
   rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/share
 }
diff --git a/packages/devel/glibc/package.mk b/packages/devel/glibc/package.mk
index a487ed0aa9..07e93d0b45 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glibc/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/glibc/package.mk
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="glibc"
-PKG_VERSION="2.28"
-PKG_SHA256="b1900051afad76f7a4f73e71413df4826dce085ef8ddb785a945b66d7d513082"
+PKG_VERSION="2.29"
+PKG_SHA256="f3eeb8d57e25ca9fc13c2af3dae97754f9f643bc69229546828e3a240e2af04b"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/glibc/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/libaio/package.mk b/packages/devel/libaio/package.mk
index 4d973e585a..084f456b04 100644
--- a/packages/devel/libaio/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/libaio/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2017 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libaio"
-PKG_VERSION="0.3.110"
-PKG_SHA256="e019028e631725729376250e32b473012f7cb68e1f7275bfc1bbcdd0f8745f7e"
+PKG_VERSION="0.3.111"
+PKG_SHA256="62cf871ad8fd09eb3418f00aca7a7d449299b8e1de31c65f28bf6a2ef1fa502a"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html"
 PKG_URL="http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/liba/libaio/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}.orig.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/libcap/package.mk b/packages/devel/libcap/package.mk
index 73a075aaf3..c922947c0c 100644
--- a/packages/devel/libcap/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/libcap/package.mk
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Roman Weber (roman@openelec.tv)
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libcap"
-PKG_VERSION="2.25"
-PKG_SHA256="693c8ac51e983ee678205571ef272439d83afe62dd8e424ea14ad9790bc35162"
+PKG_VERSION="2.26"
+PKG_SHA256="b630b7c484271b3ba867680d6a14b10a86cfa67247a14631b14c06731d5a458b"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE=""
 PKG_URL="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/libfmt/package.mk b/packages/devel/libfmt/package.mk
index a2c976f54a..d1d87c11b5 100644
--- a/packages/devel/libfmt/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/libfmt/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libfmt"
-PKG_VERSION="5.1.0"
-PKG_SHA256="73d4cab4fa8a3482643d8703de4d9522d7a56981c938eca42d929106ff474b44"
+PKG_VERSION="5.3.0"
+PKG_SHA256="defa24a9af4c622a7134076602070b45721a43c51598c8456ec6f2c4dbb51c89"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 PKG_SITE="https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/archive/$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/libftdi1/package.mk b/packages/devel/libftdi1/package.mk
index 6ec495365e..855252fc7f 100644
--- a/packages/devel/libftdi1/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/libftdi1/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libftdi1"
-PKG_VERSION="1.3"
-PKG_SHA256="9a8c95c94bfbcf36584a0a58a6e2003d9b133213d9202b76aec76302ffaa81f4"
+PKG_VERSION="1.4"
+PKG_SHA256="ec36fb49080f834690c24008328a5ef42d3cf584ef4060f3a35aa4681cb31b74"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/"
 PKG_URL="http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/packages/devel/mpc/package.mk b/packages/devel/mpc/package.mk
index f89534c7ec..351f2e3295 100644
--- a/packages/devel/mpc/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/mpc/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="mpc"
-PKG_VERSION="1.0.3"
-PKG_SHA256="617decc6ea09889fb08ede330917a00b16809b8db88c29c31bfbb49cbf88ecc3"
+PKG_VERSION="1.1.0"
+PKG_SHA256="6985c538143c1208dcb1ac42cedad6ff52e267b47e5f970183a3e75125b43c2e"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.multiprecision.org"
 PKG_URL="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mpc/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/mpfr/package.mk b/packages/devel/mpfr/package.mk
index 31a2e60537..e9b73f0ceb 100644
--- a/packages/devel/mpfr/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/mpfr/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="mpfr"
-PKG_VERSION="3.1.5"
-PKG_SHA256="015fde82b3979fbe5f83501986d328331ba8ddf008c1ff3da3c238f49ca062bc"
+PKG_VERSION="4.0.1"
+PKG_SHA256="67874a60826303ee2fb6affc6dc0ddd3e749e9bfcb4c8655e3953d0458a6e16e"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.mpfr.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mpfr/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
diff --git a/packages/devel/readline/package.mk b/packages/devel/readline/package.mk
index 7e3ceba513..02734e965d 100644
--- a/packages/devel/readline/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/readline/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="readline"
-PKG_VERSION="7.0"
-PKG_SHA256="750d437185286f40a369e1e4f4764eda932b9459b5ec9a731628393dd3d32334"
+PKG_VERSION="8.0"
+PKG_SHA256="e339f51971478d369f8a053a330a190781acb9864cf4c541060f12078948e461"
 PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/readline/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/readline/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/emulation/libretro-mame/package.mk b/packages/emulation/libretro-mame/package.mk
index 93bb19566f..eab96f4dec 100644
--- a/packages/emulation/libretro-mame/package.mk
+++ b/packages/emulation/libretro-mame/package.mk
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ make_target() {
 
   make REGENIE=1 VERBOSE=1 NOWERROR=1 PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python2 CONFIG=libretro \
        LIBRETRO_OS="unix" ARCH="" PROJECT="" LIBRETRO_CPU="$ARCH" DISTRO="debian-stable" \
-       CC="$CC" CXX="$CXX" LD="$LD" CROSS_BUILD="" PTR64="$PTR64" TARGET="mame" \
+       CROSS_BUILD="1" OVERRIDE_CC="$CC" OVERRIDE_CXX="$CXX" \
+       PTR64="$PTR64" TARGET="mame" \
        SUBTARGET="arcade" PLATFORM="$ARCH" RETRO=1 OSD="retro"
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/emulation/libretro-mame/patches/libretro-mame-0001-fix-makefile.patch b/packages/emulation/libretro-mame/patches/libretro-mame-0001-fix-makefile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bd7cd5bff..0000000000
--- a/packages/emulation/libretro-mame/patches/libretro-mame-0001-fix-makefile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur a/3rdparty/genie/build/gmake.linux/genie.make b/3rdparty/genie/build/gmake.linux/genie.make
---- a/3rdparty/genie/build/gmake.linux/genie.make	2017-06-28 12:47:18.000000000 -0700
-+++ b/3rdparty/genie/build/gmake.linux/genie.make	2017-07-14 12:21:57.302218319 -0700
-@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@
-   RM    = $(SILENT) del /F "$(subst /,\\,$(1))" 2> nul || exit 0
- endif
- 
--CC  = gcc
--CXX = g++
--AR  = ar
--
- ifndef RESCOMP
-   ifdef WINDRES
-     RESCOMP = $(WINDRES)
diff --git a/packages/emulation/libretro-mame2016/package.mk b/packages/emulation/libretro-mame2016/package.mk
index 5d1b79170b..5d1f55e48b 100644
--- a/packages/emulation/libretro-mame2016/package.mk
+++ b/packages/emulation/libretro-mame2016/package.mk
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ make_target() {
 
   make REGENIE=1 VERBOSE=1 NOWERROR=1 PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python2 CONFIG=libretro \
        LIBRETRO_OS="unix" ARCH="" PROJECT="" LIBRETRO_CPU="$ARCH" DISTRO="debian-stable" \
-       CC="$CC" CXX="$CXX" LD="$LD" CROSS_BUILD="" PTR64="$PTR64" TARGET="mame" \
+       CROSS_BUILD="1" OVERRIDE_CC="$CC" OVERRIDE_CXX="$CXX" \
+       PTR64="$PTR64" TARGET="mame" \
        SUBTARGET="arcade" PLATFORM="$ARCH" RETRO=1 OSD="retro"
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/emulation/libretro-mame2016/patches/libretro-mame2016-01-crosscompile.patch b/packages/emulation/libretro-mame2016/patches/libretro-mame2016-01-crosscompile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c59619723..0000000000
--- a/packages/emulation/libretro-mame2016/patches/libretro-mame2016-01-crosscompile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- a/makefile
-+++ b/makefile
-@@ -336,9 +336,9 @@
- else
- PYTHON := $(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE)
- endif
--CC := $(SILENT)gcc
--LD := $(SILENT)g++
--CXX:= $(SILENT)g++
-+CC ?= $(SILENT)gcc
-+LD ?= $(SILENT)g++
-+CXX?= $(SILENT)g++
- 
- #-------------------------------------------------
- # specify OSD layer: windows, sdl, etc.
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk b/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
index 0e34988c13..c6b4ced8e5 100644
--- a/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/devel/meson/package.mk
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="meson"
-PKG_VERSION="0.47.2"
-PKG_SHA256="92d8afd921751261e36151643464efd3394162f69efbe8cd53e0a66b1cf395eb"
+PKG_VERSION="0.49.1"
+PKG_SHA256="e90c8ee46109d3b9d9a12c76c65811d4a7f7e18503f780eb301866e43d9052cb"
 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"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host pathlib:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="Python3:host setuptools:host pathlib:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="High productivity build system"
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="manual"
 
@@ -20,7 +20,5 @@ makeinstall_host() {
 
   # Avoid using full path to python3 that may exceed 128 byte limit.
   # Instead use PATH as we know our toolchain is first.
-  for f in meson mesonconf mesontest mesonintrospect wraptool; do
-    sed -i '1 s/^#!.*$/#!\/usr\/bin\/env python3/' $TOOLCHAIN/bin/$f
-  done
+  sed -e '1 s/^#!.*$/#!\/usr\/bin\/env python3/' -i $TOOLCHAIN/bin/meson
 }
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/ninja/package.mk b/packages/python/devel/ninja/package.mk
index ba0091cfdd..4d5970bef4 100644
--- a/packages/python/devel/ninja/package.mk
+++ b/packages/python/devel/ninja/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="ninja"
-PKG_VERSION="1.8.2"
-PKG_SHA256="86b8700c3d0880c2b44c2ff67ce42774aaf8c28cbf57725cb881569288c1c6f4"
+PKG_VERSION="1.9.0"
+PKG_SHA256="5d7ec75828f8d3fd1a0c2f31b5b0cea780cdfe1031359228c428c1a48bfcd5b9"
 PKG_LICENSE="Apache"
 PKG_SITE="http://martine.github.io/ninja/"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/archive/v$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/libusb/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/libusb/package.mk
index e7985a58c8..c7f88df518 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/libusb/package.mk
+++ b/packages/sysutils/libusb/package.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libusb"
-PKG_VERSION="1.0.21"
-PKG_SHA256="7dce9cce9a81194b7065ee912bcd55eeffebab694ea403ffb91b67db66b1824b"
+PKG_VERSION="1.0.22"
+PKG_SHA256="75aeb9d59a4fdb800d329a545c2e6799f732362193b465ea198f2aa275518157"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPLv2.1"
 PKG_SITE="http://libusb.info/"
 PKG_URL="$SOURCEFORGE_SRC/libusb/files/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/systemd/patches/systemd-0300-PR9885.patch b/packages/sysutils/systemd/patches/systemd-0300-PR9885.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5369bde373
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/sysutils/systemd/patches/systemd-0300-PR9885.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+From 1c04c791e85f9dd5e16ae846d0c0b0a99a47076e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
+Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:11:30 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] meson: rename -Ddebug to -Ddebug-extra
+
+Meson added -Doptimization and -Ddebug options, which obviously causes
+a conflict with our -Ddebug options. Let's rename it.
+
+Fixes #9883.
+---
+ meson.build       | 2 +-
+ meson_options.txt | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index f79ac4b12e7..2209c935ad6 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ substs.set('DEBUGTTY', get_option('debug-tty'))
+ 
+ enable_debug_hashmap = false
+ enable_debug_mmap_cache = false
+-foreach name : get_option('debug')
++foreach name : get_option('debug-extra')
+         if name == 'hashmap'
+                 enable_debug_hashmap = true
+         elif name == 'mmap-cache'
+diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
+index e3140c8c110..7b1f61bf464 100644
+--- a/meson_options.txt
++++ b/meson_options.txt
+@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ option('debug-shell', type : 'string', value : '/bin/sh',
+        description : 'path to debug shell binary')
+ option('debug-tty', type : 'string', value : '/dev/tty9',
+        description : 'specify the tty device for debug shell')
+-option('debug', type : 'array', choices : ['hashmap', 'mmap-cache'], value : [],
++option('debug-extra', type : 'array', choices : ['hashmap', 'mmap-cache'], value : [],
+        description : 'enable extra debugging')
+ option('memory-accounting-default', type : 'boolean',
+        description : 'enable MemoryAccounting= by default')