diff --git a/bash/.md5sum b/bash/.md5sum
index 117c91ff..dd97fc37 100644
--- a/bash/.md5sum
+++ b/bash/.md5sum
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-1564d33b9e2dc2ff83661d69c9eff8e5  bash-4.1-001-009.patch.gz
-9800d8724815fd84994d9be65ab5e7b8  bash-4.1.tar.gz
+df31506c3c23b4b2764c41f240fd516c  bash-4.2.6.patch.gz
+3fb927c7c33022f1c327f14a81c0d4b0  bash-4.2.tar.gz
 3fee206195d50dbd8a3560a8a77f341b  profile
diff --git a/bash/Pkgfile b/bash/Pkgfile
index 31464a3b..5161b6f9 100644
--- a/bash/Pkgfile
+++ b/bash/Pkgfile
@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@
 # Depends on:  ncurses readline
 
 name=bash
-version=4.1.9
+version=4.2.6
 release=1
-source=(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$name/$name-4.1.tar.gz \
-        $name-4.1-001-009.patch.gz profile)
+source=(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$name/$name-${version::3}.tar.gz \
+        $name-$version.patch.gz profile)
 
 build() {
-    cd $name-4.1
+    cd $name-${version::3}
 
-    gunzip -c $SRC/$name-4.1-001-009.patch.gz | patch -p0
+    gunzip -c $SRC/$name-$version.patch.gz | patch -p0
 
     ./configure --prefix=/usr \
                 --exec-prefix= \
diff --git a/bash/bash-4.1-001-009.patch.gz b/bash/bash-4.1-001-009.patch.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index f3e580fa..00000000
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diff --git a/bash/bash-4.2.6.patch.gz b/bash/bash-4.2.6.patch.gz
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e43ebe81
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