diff --git a/utils/mariadb/Makefile b/utils/mariadb/Makefile
index 7230fe43cf..03bdd51c3c 100644
--- a/utils/mariadb/Makefile
+++ b/utils/mariadb/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=mariadb
-PKG_VERSION:=10.4.17
+PKG_VERSION:=10.4.18
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ PKG_SOURCE_URL := \
 	https://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/pub/dbms/mariadb/$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION)/source \
 	https://downloads.mariadb.org/interstitial/$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION)/source
 
-PKG_HASH:=a7b104e264311cd46524ae546ff0c5107978373e4a01cf7fd8a241454548d16e
+PKG_HASH:=330d9e8273002fc92f0f3f3f9b08157a3cab1265a0f114adeb6235e4283a0d3e
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Michal Hrusecky <Michal@Hrusecky.net>
 PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0
 PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING THIRDPARTY
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ HOST_BUILD_DEPENDS:=libxml2/host
 # Without libevent2 tests/async_queries sporadically fails on the bots
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=libevent2 mariadb/host
 
-CMAKE_INSTALL:=1
-
 CONF_DIR:=/etc/mysql
 PLUGIN_DIR:=/usr/lib/mariadb/plugin
 SHARE_DIR:=/usr/share/mariadb
@@ -178,8 +176,7 @@ MARIADB_COMMON_DEPENDS := \
 	+libatomic \
 	+libopenssl \
 	+libstdcpp \
-	+zlib \
-	@!USE_UCLIBC
+	+zlib
 
 # Pass CPPFLAGS in the CFLAGS as otherwise the build system will
 # ignore them.
@@ -478,11 +475,6 @@ define Build/Prepare
 	$(foreach p,$(MARIADB_DISABLE_PLUGINS),$(call Package/mariadb/disable/plugin,$(PKG_BUILD_DIR),$(p));)
 endef
 
-# Define Build/InstallDev, otherwise build system starts installing files into
-# staging area, which would interfere with mariadb-connector-c.
-define Build/InstallDev
-endef
-
 define Package/mariadb-client/install
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/bin
 	$(foreach b,$(MARIADB_CLIENT),$(call Package/mariadb/install/bin,$(1),$(b));)