diff --git a/package/pv/0001-add-lstat64-to-64-emulation.patch b/package/pv/0001-add-lstat64-to-64-emulation.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a2aa4f56b5..0000000000
--- a/package/pv/0001-add-lstat64-to-64-emulation.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-[PATCH] add lstat64 to *64 emulation
-
-pv nowadays also uses lstat64, so add it to the emulation defines for !LFS
-builds.
-
-Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
----
- autoconf/header.in |    1 +
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
-
-Index: pv-1.5.7/autoconf/header.in
-===================================================================
---- pv-1.5.7.orig/autoconf/header.in
-+++ pv-1.5.7/autoconf/header.in
-@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
- # endif
- # define open64 open
- # define lseek64 lseek
-+# define lstat64 lstat
- #endif
- 
- #undef HAVE_IPC
diff --git a/package/pv/pv.hash b/package/pv/pv.hash
index 4120a811c6..291d6dd06f 100644
--- a/package/pv/pv.hash
+++ b/package/pv/pv.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	c8535061bb703086b67fa540da162ad48d6ecd219ae74157111465adfdef5997  pv-1.5.7.tar.bz2
+sha256	0ece824e0da27b384d11d1de371f20cafac465e038041adab57fcf4b5036ef8d  pv-1.6.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/pv/pv.mk b/package/pv/pv.mk
index 47f570f8be..2279805a65 100644
--- a/package/pv/pv.mk
+++ b/package/pv/pv.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PV_VERSION = 1.5.7
+PV_VERSION = 1.6.0
 PV_SOURCE = pv-$(PV_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PV_SITE = http://www.ivarch.com/programs/sources
 PV_LICENSE = Artistic-2.0