diff --git a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/build b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/build
index 7c3d851b73..eb85b5db5e 100755
--- a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/build
+++ b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/build
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 # transmission (svn 11666) fails to build with LTO support
   strip_lto
 
-export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -liconv"
+export LIBS="-liconv"
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
@@ -35,12 +35,8 @@ cd $PKG_BUILD
             --localstatedir=/var \
             --disable-static \
             --enable-shared \
+            --disable-utp \
             --enable-largefile \
-            --disable-gtk \
-            --disable-libnotify \
-            --disable-libappindicator \
-            --disable-libcanberra \
-            --disable-gconf2 \
             --disable-nls \
             --disable-cli \
             --disable-mac \
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/changelog.txt b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/changelog.txt
index 85f94fefdc..ce4ab8e981 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/changelog.txt
+++ b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+1.90.1
+- update to transmission-2.42
+
 1.90.0
 - prepare for OpenELEC-1.90 release
 
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/meta b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/meta
index ac8ebfc340..6b5a6b30f9 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/meta
+++ b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/meta
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="transmission"
-PKG_VERSION="2.41"
-PKG_REV="0"
+PKG_VERSION="2.42"
+PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.transmissionbt.com/"
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/patches/transmission-2.42-utp.patch b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/patches/transmission-2.42-utp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1978f7af18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/patches/transmission-2.42-utp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- a/third-party/libutp/utypes.h.orig	Wed Sep 28 19:46:15 2011
++++ b/third-party/libutp/utypes.h	Wed Sep 28 19:47:06 2011
+@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ typedef const char * cstr;
+ typedef char * str;
+ 
+ #ifndef __cplusplus
++#ifdef HAVE_STDBOOL_H
++#include <stdbool.h>
++#else
+ typedef uint8 bool;
++#endif
+ #endif
+ 
+ #endif //__UTYPES_H__