diff --git a/package/network/utils/iftop/Makefile b/package/network/utils/iftop/Makefile
index 037fb15cc1..bd82f2df94 100644
--- a/package/network/utils/iftop/Makefile
+++ b/package/network/utils/iftop/Makefile
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=iftop
-PKG_VERSION:=1.0pre2
+PKG_VERSION:=1.0pre4
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download
-PKG_MD5SUM:=fef521a49ec0122458d02c64212af3c5
+PKG_MD5SUM:=7e6decb4958e8a4890cccac335239f24
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
 PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0
diff --git a/package/network/utils/iftop/patches/0001-force-ncurses.patch b/package/network/utils/iftop/patches/0001-force-ncurses.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bf23fb4dfb..0000000000
--- a/package/network/utils/iftop/patches/0001-force-ncurses.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru iftop-1.0pre2-old/configure iftop-1.0pre2/configure
---- iftop-1.0pre2-old/configure	2011-10-04 13:30:30.000000000 -0700
-+++ iftop-1.0pre2/configure	2012-09-09 22:26:05.000000000 -0700
-@@ -7568,7 +7568,7 @@
- { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for a curses library containing mvchgat" >&5
- $as_echo_n "checking for a curses library containing mvchgat... " >&6; }
- oldLIBS=$LIBS
--for curseslib in ncursesw curses ncurses ; do
-+for curseslib in ncurses ; do
-     LIBS="$oldLIBS -l$curseslib"
-     cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
- /* confdefs.h.  */