diff --git a/multimedia/gstreamer1/Makefile b/multimedia/gstreamer1/Makefile
index b0293ac750..a33c360915 100644
--- a/multimedia/gstreamer1/Makefile
+++ b/multimedia/gstreamer1/Makefile
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=gstreamer1
-PKG_VERSION:=1.16.2
+PKG_VERSION:=1.17.1
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=gstreamer-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer
-PKG_HASH:=e3f044246783fd685439647373fa13ba14f7ab0b346eadd06437092f8419e94e
+PKG_HASH:=f63566152755aab98414feb859ea8b00d3b07cad2486f304a8feec1265e5aa0e
 PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/gstreamer-$(PKG_VERSION)
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org> \
@@ -121,14 +121,16 @@ MESON_ARGS += \
 	-Dregistry=false \
 	-Dtracer_hooks=false \
 	-Dptp-helper-setuid-user=none \
-	-Dextra-checks=false \
+	-Dptp-helper-setuid-group=none \
 	-Doption-parsing=false \
 	-Dpoisoning=false \
+	-Dmemory-alignment=malloc \
 	-Dcheck=enabled \
 	-Dlibunwind=disabled \
 	-Dlibdw=disabled \
 	-Ddbghelp=disabled \
 	-Dbash-completion=disabled \
+	-Dcoretracers=disabled \
 	-Dexamples=disabled \
 	-Dbenchmarks=disabled \
 	-Dtools=enabled \
@@ -136,7 +138,9 @@ MESON_ARGS += \
 	-Dintrospection=disabled \
 	-Dnls=enabled \
 	-Dgobject-cast-checks=disabled \
-	-Dglib-asserts=disabled
+	-Dglib-asserts=disabled \
+	-Dextra-checks=disabled \
+	-Ddoc=disabled
 
 define Build/InstallDev
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/include/gstreamer-$(GST_VERSION)
diff --git a/multimedia/gstreamer1/patches/001-no-translations.patch b/multimedia/gstreamer1/patches/001-no-translations.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e6c6864011..0000000000
--- a/multimedia/gstreamer1/patches/001-no-translations.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- a/Makefile.am
-+++ b/Makefile.am
-@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ aclocal_DATA = gst-element-check-1.0.m4
- SUBDIRS = pkgconfig \
- 	gst libs plugins tests \
- 	docs \
--	po \
- 	m4 \
- 	common \
- 	data
-@@ -22,7 +21,6 @@ endif
- DIST_SUBDIRS = pkgconfig \
- 	gst libs plugins tools tests \
- 	docs \
--	po \
- 	m4 \
- 	common \
- 	data
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -1108,7 +1108,6 @@ libs/gst/net/Makefile
- plugins/Makefile
- plugins/elements/Makefile
- plugins/tracers/Makefile
--po/Makefile.in
- tests/Makefile
- tests/benchmarks/Makefile
- tests/check/Makefile