diff --git a/packages/tools/htop/meta b/packages/tools/htop/meta
index ede0ec545b..4aaa520f24 100644
--- a/packages/tools/htop/meta
+++ b/packages/tools/htop/meta
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PKG_NAME="htop"
-PKG_VERSION="0.8.3"
+PKG_VERSION="0.9"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/tools/htop/patches/htop-0.8.3-crosscompiling-0.1.patch b/packages/tools/htop/patches/htop-0.8.3-crosscompiling-0.1.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c80f5e466..0000000000
--- a/packages/tools/htop/patches/htop-0.8.3-crosscompiling-0.1.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur htop-0.8.3/configure.ac htop-0.8.3.patch/configure.ac
---- htop-0.8.3/configure.ac	2009-06-23 15:53:18.000000000 +0200
-+++ htop-0.8.3.patch/configure.ac	2010-08-31 15:26:52.545129346 +0200
-@@ -94,9 +94,6 @@
-    AC_CHECK_HEADERS([curses.h],[:],[missing_headers="$missing_headers $ac_header"])
- fi
- 
--AC_CHECK_FILE($PROCDIR/stat,,AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find /proc/stat. Make sure you have a Linux-compatible /proc filesystem mounted. See the file README for help.))
--AC_CHECK_FILE($PROCDIR/meminfo,,AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find /proc/meminfo. Make sure you have a Linux-compatible /proc filesystem mounted. See the file README for help.))
--
- PLPA_INCLUDED(plpa-1.1)
- PLPA_INIT(plpa_happy=yes, plpa_happy=no)
- AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PLPA], [test "$plpa_happy" = "yes"])
diff --git a/packages/tools/htop/patches/htop-0.9-crosscompiling-0.1.patch b/packages/tools/htop/patches/htop-0.9-crosscompiling-0.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ad948a769
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/tools/htop/patches/htop-0.9-crosscompiling-0.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -Naur htop-0.9.orig/configure.ac htop-0.9/configure.ac
+--- htop-0.9.orig/configure.ac  2010-11-23 16:56:32.000000000 +0100
++++ htop-0.9/configure.ac       2010-12-26 12:23:34.433062696 +0100
+@@ -101,9 +101,6 @@
+ 
+ 
+ 
+-AC_CHECK_FILE($PROCDIR/stat,,AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find /proc/stat. Make sure you have a Linux-compatible /proc filesystem mounted. See the file README for help.))
+-AC_CHECK_FILE($PROCDIR/meminfo,,AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find /proc/meminfo. Make sure you have a Linux-compatible /proc filesystem mounted. See the file README for help.))
+-
+ AC_ARG_ENABLE(plpa, [AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-plpa], [enable PLPA support for CPU affinity])], ,enable_plpa="yes")
+ PLPA_INCLUDED
+ PLPA_INIT([plpa-1.3.2], [plpa_happy=yes], [plpa_happy=no])
+