diff --git a/net/memcached/Makefile b/net/memcached/Makefile
index 211cfe054d..0bad81b359 100644
--- a/net/memcached/Makefile
+++ b/net/memcached/Makefile
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=memcached
-PKG_VERSION:=1.4.24
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_VERSION:=1.4.26
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://memcached.org/files
-PKG_MD5SUM:=4d6e8c90e2068580526c7579dd7f37f6
+PKG_MD5SUM:=59b7bbfbc9cde5731bf4446e1e37b440
 PKG_INSTALL:=1
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Thomas Heil <heil@terminal-consulting.de>
 PKG_LICENSE:=permissive free software license
diff --git a/net/memcached/patches/001-musl-compat.patch b/net/memcached/patches/001-musl-compat.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 558931e4f5..0000000000
--- a/net/memcached/patches/001-musl-compat.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
---- memcached-1.4.15.orig/assoc.c
-+++ memcached-1.4.15/assoc.c
-@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
- #include "memcached.h"
- #include <sys/stat.h>
- #include <sys/socket.h>
--#include <sys/signal.h>
- #include <sys/resource.h>
-+#include <signal.h>
- #include <fcntl.h>
- #include <netinet/in.h>
- #include <errno.h>
---- memcached-1.4.15.orig/items.c
-+++ memcached-1.4.15/items.c
-@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
- #include "memcached.h"
- #include <sys/stat.h>
- #include <sys/socket.h>
--#include <sys/signal.h>
- #include <sys/resource.h>
- #include <fcntl.h>
- #include <netinet/in.h>
- #include <errno.h>
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <stdio.h>
-+#include <signal.h>
- #include <string.h>
- #include <time.h>
- #include <assert.h>
---- memcached-1.4.15.orig/slabs.c
-+++ memcached-1.4.15/slabs.c
-@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
- #include "memcached.h"
- #include <sys/stat.h>
- #include <sys/socket.h>
--#include <sys/signal.h>
- #include <sys/resource.h>
- #include <fcntl.h>
- #include <netinet/in.h>
-@@ -18,6 +17,7 @@
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <string.h>
-+#include <signal.h>
- #include <assert.h>
- #include <pthread.h>
- 
diff --git a/net/memcached/patches/100-fix_iov_max.patch b/net/memcached/patches/100-fix_iov_max.patch
index 1a5da94b05..55a980ca5d 100644
--- a/net/memcached/patches/100-fix_iov_max.patch
+++ b/net/memcached/patches/100-fix_iov_max.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
---- a/memcached.c
-+++ b/memcached.c
+Index: memcached-1.4.26/memcached.c
+===================================================================
+--- memcached-1.4.26.orig/memcached.c
++++ memcached-1.4.26/memcached.c
 @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
   *      Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
   *      Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>
@@ -11,7 +13,7 @@
  #include "memcached.h"
  #include <sys/stat.h>
  #include <sys/socket.h>
-@@ -29,9 +33,6 @@
+@@ -30,9 +34,6 @@
  #define _P1003_1B_VISIBLE
  #endif
  /* need this to get IOV_MAX on some platforms. */