diff --git a/package/libqmi/libqmi.hash b/package/libqmi/libqmi.hash
index 08da1ae219..3f4015467a 100644
--- a/package/libqmi/libqmi.hash
+++ b/package/libqmi/libqmi.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  7ab6bb47fd23bf4d3fa17424e40ea5552d08b19e5ee4f125f21f316c8086ba2a  libqmi-1.16.0.tar.xz
+sha256 a0a42c55935e75a630208e2f70840bd4407f56fe1c5258f5b0f6c0aaedf88cec  libqmi-1.18.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/libqmi/libqmi.mk b/package/libqmi/libqmi.mk
index caa4398768..92b635d5cc 100644
--- a/package/libqmi/libqmi.mk
+++ b/package/libqmi/libqmi.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBQMI_VERSION = 1.16.0
+LIBQMI_VERSION = 1.18.0
 LIBQMI_SITE = http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libqmi
 LIBQMI_SOURCE = libqmi-$(LIBQMI_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBQMI_LICENSE = LGPL-2.0+ (library), GPL-2.0+ (programs)
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LIBQMI_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
 LIBQMI_DEPENDENCIES = libglib2
 
-# we don't want -Werror
-LIBQMI_CONF_OPTS = --enable-more-warnings=no
+# we don't want -Werror and disable gudev Gobject bindings
+LIBQMI_CONF_OPTS = --enable-more-warnings=no --without-udev
 
 $(eval $(autotools-package))