diff --git a/package/vala/0001-dont-add-dirty-to-valac-version.patch b/package/vala/0001-dont-add-dirty-to-valac-version.patch
index a2a0623369..8d878cd495 100644
--- a/package/vala/0001-dont-add-dirty-to-valac-version.patch
+++ b/package/vala/0001-dont-add-dirty-to-valac-version.patch
@@ -11,15 +11,18 @@ The effect is that valac gets built as being version x.y.z-dirty, which
 breaks programs (such as Midori) that explicitly check for valac-x.y.z.
 
 Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
+[Fabrice: update for 0.52.4]
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
 diff -Nur a/build-aux/git-version-gen b/build-aux/git-version-gen
 --- a/build-aux/git-version-gen	2010-08-15 12:49:03.000000000 +0100
 +++ b/build-aux/git-version-gen	2012-05-14 10:17:19.977204570 +0100
 @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
-     *) # Append the suffix only if there isn't one already.
- 	case $v in
- 	  *-dirty) ;;
--	  *) v="$v-dirty" ;;
-+	  #*) v="$v-dirty" ;;
- 	esac ;;
- esac
+       *) # Append the suffix only if there isn't one already.
+           case $v in
+             *-dirty) ;;
+-            *) v="$v-dirty" ;;
++            #*) v="$v-dirty" ;;
+           esac ;;
+   esac
+ fi
  
diff --git a/package/vala/vala.hash b/package/vala/vala.hash
index 319c7ef2f4..7f3a099940 100644
--- a/package/vala/vala.hash
+++ b/package/vala/vala.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.46/vala-0.46.6.sha256sum
-sha256  ef31649932872f094971d46453b21c60a41661670f98afa334062425b4aec47a  vala-0.46.6.tar.xz
+# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.52/vala-0.52.4.sha256sum
+sha256  ecde520e5160e659ee699f8b1cdc96065edbd44bbd08eb48ef5f2506751fdf31  vala-0.52.4.tar.xz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  5df07007198989c622f5d41de8d703e7bef3d0e79d62e24332ee739a452af62a  COPYING
diff --git a/package/vala/vala.mk b/package/vala/vala.mk
index 93a304f19c..94e18d349b 100644
--- a/package/vala/vala.mk
+++ b/package/vala/vala.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-VALA_VERSION_MAJOR = 0.46
-VALA_VERSION = $(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR).6
+VALA_VERSION_MAJOR = 0.52
+VALA_VERSION = $(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR).4
 VALA_SITE = http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/$(VALA_VERSION_MAJOR)
 VALA_SOURCE = vala-$(VALA_VERSION).tar.xz
 VALA_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+