diff --git a/readline/.footprint b/readline/.footprint
index 2b07fbd2..ebc06ab5 100644
--- a/readline/.footprint
+++ b/readline/.footprint
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	etc/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	etc/inputrc
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	lib/
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	lib/libhistory.so.6 -> libhistory.so.6.2
--r-xr-xr-x	root/root	lib/libhistory.so.6.2
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	lib/libreadline.so.6 -> libreadline.so.6.2
--r-xr-xr-x	root/root	lib/libreadline.so.6.2
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	lib/libhistory.so.6 -> libhistory.so.6.3
+-r-xr-xr-x	root/root	lib/libhistory.so.6.3
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	lib/libreadline.so.6 -> libreadline.so.6.3
+-r-xr-xr-x	root/root	lib/libreadline.so.6.3
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/readline/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/readline/tilde.h
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/libhistory.a
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libhistory.so -> ../../lib/libhistory.so.6.2
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libhistory.so -> ../../lib/libhistory.so.6.3
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/libreadline.a
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libreadline.so -> ../../lib/libreadline.so.6.2
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libreadline.so -> ../../lib/libreadline.so.6.3
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man3/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man3/history.3.gz
@@ -30,8 +30,11 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/readline/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/excallback.c
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/fileman.c
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/hist_erasedups.c
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/hist_purgecmd.c
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/histexamp.c
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/manexamp.c
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/rl-callbacktest.c
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/rl-fgets.c
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/rl.c
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/readline/rlcat.c
diff --git a/readline/.md5sum b/readline/.md5sum
index 3942ac1a..68c62a10 100644
--- a/readline/.md5sum
+++ b/readline/.md5sum
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 553cf04fdeec54dca12062864c3ffba3  inputrc
-2874659146fb32abd1b2274922425201  readline-6.2.5.patch.gz
-67948acb2ca081f23359d0256e9a271c  readline-6.2.tar.gz
+33c8fb279e981274f485fd91da77e94a  readline-6.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/readline/Pkgfile b/readline/Pkgfile
index 8e8aa29c..2bdf53f7 100644
--- a/readline/Pkgfile
+++ b/readline/Pkgfile
@@ -4,19 +4,14 @@
 # Depends on:  ncurses
 
 name=readline
-version=6.2.5
+version=6.3
 release=1
 source=(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$name/$name-${version:0:3}.tar.gz \
-        $name-$version.patch.gz inputrc)
+        inputrc)
 
 build() {
     cd $name-${version:0:3}
 
-    gunzip -c $SRC/$name-$version.patch.gz | patch -p0
-
-    # Don't use rpath for linking the shared libs
-    sed -i '117s/-Wl,-rpath,$(libdir)//' support/shobj-conf
-
     ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/man
     make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses
     make DESTDIR=$PKG install
@@ -27,5 +22,5 @@ build() {
     ln -sf ../../lib/libreadline.so.${version:0:3} $PKG/usr/lib/libreadline.so
 
     install -D -m 644 $SRC/inputrc $PKG/etc/inputrc
-    rm -r $PKG/usr/share/info
+    rm -r $PKG/usr/share/{doc,info}
 }
diff --git a/readline/readline-6.2.5.patch.gz b/readline/readline-6.2.5.patch.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index b708c933..00000000
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