diff --git a/srcpkgs/hexchat/patches/perl-link.patch b/srcpkgs/hexchat/patches/perl-link.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 66390dedd5..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/hexchat/patches/perl-link.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- a/plugins/perl/meson.build	2018-08-15 13:30:17.108881970 +0200
-+++ b/plugins/perl/meson.build	2018-08-15 13:30:36.682882751 +0200
-@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
- perl_ldflags = []
- perl_rpath = ''
- foreach flag : ret.stdout().strip().split(' ')
--  if flag.startswith('-L') or flag.startswith('-l')
-+  if flag.startswith('-l')
-     perl_ldflags += flag
-   endif
-   if flag.startswith('-Wl,-rpath,')
-@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
-   endif
- endforeach
- 
-+perl_ldflags += '-L${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE'
-+
- perl_cflags += [
-   # Perl has its own 'config.h' that we must override
-   # TODO: Just rename ours to something more unique.
diff --git a/srcpkgs/hexchat/template b/srcpkgs/hexchat/template
index 8bd4b443f7..f2e356f547 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/hexchat/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/hexchat/template
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
 # Template file for 'hexchat'
 pkgname=hexchat
-version=2.14.3
-revision=6
+version=2.16.0
+revision=1
 build_style=meson
-configure_args="-Dwith-dbus=true -Dwith-ssl=true -Dwith-text=false
+configure_args="-Ddbus=enabled -Dtls=enabled -Dwith-text=false
  -Dwith-perl=/usr/bin/perl -Dwith-python=python3
- -Dwith-lua=$(vopt_if LuaJIT luajit lua)"
+ -Dwith-lua=$(vopt_if LuaJIT luajit lua) -Dlibcanberra=enabled"
 hostmakedepends="gettext pkg-config glib-devel"
 makedepends="gtk+-devel openssl-devel dbus-glib-devel perl libnotify-devel
- libcanberra-devel libxml2-devel pciutils-devel libproxy-devel
- iso-codes python3-devel $(vopt_if LuaJIT LuaJIT-devel lua53-devel)"
+ libcanberra-devel pciutils-devel libproxy-devel iso-codes
+ python3-devel python3-cffi $(vopt_if LuaJIT LuaJIT-devel lua53-devel)"
 depends="desktop-file-utils enchant2"
 short_desc="GTK+ based IRC client successor of Xchat"
-maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
+maintainer="0x5c <dev@0x5c.io>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://hexchat.github.io/"
 changelog="https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html"
-distfiles="https://dl.hexchat.net/hexchat/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=901a9d13db5a4da69b827f6093306bbd16863dc49016f7668bd3e4506512e882
+distfiles="https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=5c7f35317bb3bc437fc5fb57392ddc13ba11c173718cdfe4de89d69c30a40b06
 build_options="LuaJIT"
 lib32disabled=yes
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
 esac
 
 if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-	hostmakedepends+=" dbus-glib-devel libxml2-devel gdk-pixbuf perl
+	hostmakedepends+=" dbus-glib-devel python3-cffi gdk-pixbuf perl
 	 shared-mime-info"
 fi
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/hexchat/update b/srcpkgs/hexchat/update
deleted file mode 100644
index c2af9761bb..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/hexchat/update
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-pkgname=HexChat
-site=https://dl.hexchat.net/hexchat/