diff --git a/apache/.signature b/apache/.signature
index f1efaeae6..b39d45207 100644
--- a/apache/.signature
+++ b/apache/.signature
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 untrusted comment: verify with /etc/ports/opt.pub
-RWSE3ohX2g5d/T6NweX7MSQvO3i4wKwgpxv2mAD1DxRd3thRo6MDJCFIecuEOmTKgRcv1mr97QDgFlEaycqi9MrDZ4qMbCAzegQ=
-SHA256 (Pkgfile) = 0723f93ce6f8da34cccadd3d796c6b241c031f054ab2c65a32b07fbd39f10cfc
+RWSE3ohX2g5d/fC186cZ3u7IVOEg92D9KBNfQ23B0tv+1JvZgYOZTPsq+4OxgswT9DVhgmvMz8eesVauNRr424SsdnOIRS/WJAE=
+SHA256 (Pkgfile) = 844dbd03a5ce2a89c73818fd32ac24280236152fc2fc3bd2a9a8ee41b0770233
 SHA256 (.footprint) = c74d5e2fd28b7400bca7988e0b21f4e2b12748a0a85f1d21a819069f0f9f6c9f
-SHA256 (httpd-2.4.58.tar.bz2) = fa16d72a078210a54c47dd5bef2f8b9b8a01d94909a51453956b3ec6442ea4c5
+SHA256 (httpd-2.4.59.tar.bz2) = ec51501ec480284ff52f637258135d333230a7d229c3afa6f6c2f9040e321323
 SHA256 (crux.layout) = a72a0d72c47aa72df4378f4bf1ff291eb9cdfd29f6c827b9970b8775f38f4dd6
 SHA256 (apache) = 12d9aff5a78428589aba0b43988f383af434a546ae5daadc5f5ce7b9804e56a4
-SHA256 (libxml2-2.12.patch) = e994c2aae15a5bcb344b5009323b7d23c7edf4f2d8c0fb3f34197f4f46f26e7f
diff --git a/apache/Pkgfile b/apache/Pkgfile
index 1877840a9..396879e12 100644
--- a/apache/Pkgfile
+++ b/apache/Pkgfile
@@ -4,16 +4,14 @@
 # Depends on: apr-util libnghttp2 libpcre2 libxml2 openssl
 
 name=apache
-version=2.4.58
-release=2
+version=2.4.59
+release=1
 source=(https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-$version.tar.bz2 \
-	crux.layout apache libxml2-2.12.patch)
+	crux.layout apache)
 
 build(){
 	cd httpd-$version
 
-	patch -p1 -i $SRC/libxml2-2.12.patch
-
 	cat $SRC/crux.layout >> config.layout
 	sed -ri '/^(User|Group)/s/daemon/www/' docs/conf/httpd.conf.in
 
diff --git a/apache/libxml2-2.12.patch b/apache/libxml2-2.12.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 473971ac0..000000000
--- a/apache/libxml2-2.12.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-From 27a68e54b7c6d2ae80dca396fd2727852897dab1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Eric Covener <covener@apache.org>
-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:58:47 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] mod_xml2enc: remove dependency on xmlstring header
-
-Submitted by: ttachi <tachihara@hotmail.com>
-
-Github: closes #393
-
-
-git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1914013 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
----
- changes-entries/xmlchar.txt   | 2 ++
- modules/filters/mod_xml2enc.c | 6 +++---
- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
- create mode 100644 changes-entries/xmlchar.txt
-
-diff --git a/changes-entries/xmlchar.txt b/changes-entries/xmlchar.txt
-new file mode 100644
-index 00000000000..d0e06300411
---- /dev/null
-+++ b/changes-entries/xmlchar.txt
-@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
-+ *) mod_xml2enc: Tolerate libxml2 2.12.0 and later.
-+    [ttachi <tachihara AT hotmail.com>]
-diff --git a/modules/filters/mod_xml2enc.c b/modules/filters/mod_xml2enc.c
-index 34f8e8ee090..e8ee2647955 100644
---- a/modules/filters/mod_xml2enc.c
-+++ b/modules/filters/mod_xml2enc.c
-@@ -206,11 +206,11 @@ static void sniff_encoding(request_rec* r, xml2ctx* ctx)
-             }
-         }
-     }
--  
-+
-     /* to sniff, first we look for BOM */
-     if (ctx->xml2enc == XML_CHAR_ENCODING_NONE) {
--        ctx->xml2enc = xmlDetectCharEncoding((const xmlChar*)ctx->buf,
--                                             ctx->bytes); 
-+        ctx->xml2enc = xmlDetectCharEncoding((const unsigned char*)ctx->buf,
-+                                             ctx->bytes);
-         if (HAVE_ENCODING(ctx->xml2enc)) {
-             ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_INFO, 0, r, APLOGNO(01432)
-                           "Got charset from XML rules.") ;