diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent/don-t-run-code-while-configuring-package.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent/don-t-run-code-while-configuring-package.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d8867aea7..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent/don-t-run-code-while-configuring-package.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-Using AC_RUN_IFELSE prevent people from configuring package for
-cross-compiling. Don't run code while configuring package.
-
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan <andrei@gherzan.ro>
-
-Index: git/scripts/common.m4
-===================================================================
---- git.orig/scripts/common.m4
-+++ git/scripts/common.m4
-@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ dnl   Need to fix this so that it uses t
- AC_DEFUN([TORRENT_CHECK_EXECINFO], [
-   AC_MSG_CHECKING(for execinfo.h)
- 
--  AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-+  AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-       #include <execinfo.h>
-       int main() { backtrace((void**)0, 0); backtrace_symbols((char**)0, 0); return 0;}
-       ])],
-@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([TORRENT_CHECK_EXECINFO], [
- AC_DEFUN([TORRENT_CHECK_ALIGNED], [
-   AC_MSG_CHECKING(the byte alignment)
- 
--  AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-+  AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-       #include <inttypes.h>
-       int main() {
-         char buf@<:@8@:>@ = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 };
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_git.bb
index 28a3e1e77a..50096cfdbc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_git.bb
@@ -1,36 +1,32 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, \
 with a focus on high performance and good code."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 
 DEPENDS = "zlib libsigc++-2.0 openssl cppunit"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent;branch=master;protocol=https \
-           file://don-t-run-code-while-configuring-package.patch \
-           "
-SRCREV = "756f70010779927dc0691e1e722ed433d5d295e1"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent;branch=master;protocol=https"
+SRCREV = "e60f222241319aaae482789517ad00ae9344bd13"
 
 CVE_CHECK_IGNORE += "\
     CVE-2009-1760 \
 "
 
-PV = "0.13.8"
+PV = "0.13.8+git${SRCPV}"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "instrumentation"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "instrumentation aligned"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG:remove:mipsarch = "instrumentation"
 PACKAGECONFIG:remove:powerpc = "instrumentation"
 PACKAGECONFIG:remove:riscv32 = "instrumentation"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG[instrumentation] = "--enable-instrumentation,--disable-instrumentation,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[aligned] = "--enable-aligned,--disable-aligned,"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-zlib=${STAGING_EXECPREFIXDIR}"
-
-do_configure:prepend() {
-    (cd ${S}; ./autogen.sh; cd -)
-}