diff --git a/xine-ui/.md5sum b/xine-ui/.md5sum
index d713bf400..09b8ef9a1 100644
--- a/xine-ui/.md5sum
+++ b/xine-ui/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-2af6fcc2ad6af6ba2e471497c5d140dc  xine-ui-0.99.7.tar.xz
+8dc079baeab56c99e33268a973bc288e  xine-ui-0.99.8.tar.xz
+a635450ef00fe60239f56b41beb199f5  xine-ui-readline.patch
diff --git a/xine-ui/Pkgfile b/xine-ui/Pkgfile
index ad091748d..948d06f00 100644
--- a/xine-ui/Pkgfile
+++ b/xine-ui/Pkgfile
@@ -5,13 +5,16 @@
 # Depends on: xine-lib
 
 name=xine-ui
-version=0.99.7
+version=0.99.8
 release=1
-source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xine/$name/$version/$name-$version.tar.xz)
+source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xine/$name/$version/$name-$version.tar.xz
+	xine-ui-readline.patch)
 
 build() {
 	cd $name-$version
 
+	patch -p1 -i $SRC/xine-ui-readline.patch
+
 	./configure \
 		--prefix=/usr \
 		--mandir=/usr/man \
diff --git a/xine-ui/xine-ui-readline.patch b/xine-ui/xine-ui-readline.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb680193e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xine-ui/xine-ui-readline.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- xine-ui-0.99.8.orig/src/xitk/network.c
++++ xine-ui-0.99.8/src/xitk/network.c
+@@ -1255,7 +1255,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+   rl_readline_name = PROGNAME;
+   rl_set_prompt(session.prompt);
+   rl_initialize();
+-  rl_attempted_completion_function = (CPPFunction *)completion_function;
++  rl_attempted_completion_function = completion_function;
+   
+   signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
+