diff --git a/main/oniguruma/APKBUILD b/main/oniguruma/APKBUILD
index f5261d0c8661d7725ae24f88c6f28308b227ced7..d5d13784f0ec73f9b99c42dac27deee75b6563e8 100644
--- a/main/oniguruma/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/oniguruma/APKBUILD
@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 # Contributor: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@gmail.com>
 # Maintainer: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=oniguruma
-pkgver=6.9.5
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=6.9.6
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="a regular expressions library"
 url="https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma"
 arch="all"
 license="BSD-2-Clause"
 makedepends="automake autoconf libtool"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev"
-source="$pkgver-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz
-	CVE-2020-26159.patch::https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/cbe9f8bd9cfc6c3c87a60fbae58fa1a85db59df0.patch
-	"
+source="$pkgver-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
 # secfixes:
 #   6.9.5-r2:
@@ -43,5 +41,4 @@ package() {
 	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
 }
 
-sha512sums="852f80b68a7474f375c3c5adc866c405936ae457b4b785ca02f1b7e173452c404be3696fea8b6198fe7b07e37ae6182b0f3bfa35ca9746e9ddd1e9654715757e  6.9.5-6.9.5.tar.gz
-90c42c91004eb9df89adcedb79bc175a52b596031cb2aacb891282e5ed3183ca991ac7fda1cb7a507f2e6cc9dceba78fa8291a312c23c56d457e75d31729a2df  CVE-2020-26159.patch"
+sha512sums="883fc148718166929a2db4b22c3c1aa4673fcc20d0373a21ace01b7ed4314be1ee588bf2b7aac408c4e3d7d9716d11b8d8bcb98e360468f878d413813e5c4f3a  6.9.6-6.9.6.tar.gz"