diff --git a/net/rtorrent/Makefile b/net/rtorrent/Makefile
index c6a5006eaa..1b23c5ba89 100644
--- a/net/rtorrent/Makefile
+++ b/net/rtorrent/Makefile
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=rtorrent
-PKG_VERSION:=0.9.7
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_VERSION:=0.9.8
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
-PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/download/v$(PKG_VERSION)
-PKG_HASH:=5d9842fe48c9582fbea2c7bf9f51412c1ccbba07d059b257039ad53b863fe8bb
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://codeload.github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/tar.gz/v$(PKG_VERSION)?
+PKG_HASH:=bc889ce1dde475ec56aa72ae996912ff58723226a4f4256fef4f1f8636d991d4
 PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/$(PKG_NAME)-$(BUILD_VARIANT)/$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION)
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING
 PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
 PKG_INSTALL:=1
 PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1
+PKG_REMOVE_FILES:=autogen.sh
 
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
 
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ define Package/rtorrent/Default
   CATEGORY:=Network
   TITLE:=BitTorrent client for ncurses
   URL:=https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
-  DEPENDS:=+libcurl +libtorrent +libncurses +libsigcxx +libpthread
+  DEPENDS:=+libcurl +libtorrent +libncurses +libpthread
 endef
 
 define Package/rtorrent/Default/description
@@ -76,6 +77,8 @@ ifeq ($(BUILD_VARIANT),rpc)
 CONFIGURE_ARGS += --with-xmlrpc-c
 endif
 
+TARGET_CXXFLAGS += -faligned-new
+
 define Package/rtorrent/install
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/bin
 	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/rtorrent $(1)/usr/bin/
diff --git a/net/rtorrent/patches/100-fix-cross_compile.patch b/net/rtorrent/patches/100-fix-cross_compile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 50657df13d..0000000000
--- a/net/rtorrent/patches/100-fix-cross_compile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- a/scripts/common.m4
-+++ b/scripts/common.m4
-@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ dnl   Need to fix this so that it uses t
- AC_DEFUN([TORRENT_CHECK_EXECINFO], [
-   AC_MSG_CHECKING(for execinfo.h)
- 
--  AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-+  AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-       #include <execinfo.h>
-       int main() { backtrace((void**)0, 0); backtrace_symbols((char**)0, 0); return 0;}
-       ])],
-@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([TORRENT_CHECK_EXECINFO], [
- AC_DEFUN([TORRENT_CHECK_ALIGNED], [
-   AC_MSG_CHECKING(the byte alignment)
- 
--  AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-+  AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-       #include <inttypes.h>
-       int main() {
-         char buf@<:@8@:>@ = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 };