diff --git a/libarchive/.footprint b/libarchive/.footprint
index 9d81257e..a9ff23c9 100644
--- a/libarchive/.footprint
+++ b/libarchive/.footprint
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/libarchive.a
 -rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libarchive.la
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libarchive.so -> libarchive.so.2.7.0
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libarchive.so.2 -> libarchive.so.2.7.0
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libarchive.so.2.7.0
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libarchive.so -> libarchive.so.2.7.1
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libarchive.so.2 -> libarchive.so.2.7.1
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libarchive.so.2.7.1
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/bsdcpio.1.gz
diff --git a/libarchive/.md5sum b/libarchive/.md5sum
index fb5355e0..1b581401 100644
--- a/libarchive/.md5sum
+++ b/libarchive/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-a2103ca334037562ad327eb3aed54869  libarchive-2.7.0.tar.gz
-f7d0cd7eb89764344cf61503632e51bf  libarchive.diff
+f43382413b4457d0e192771b100a66e7  libarchive-2.7.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/libarchive/Pkgfile b/libarchive/Pkgfile
index f855410e..0a2d7ed2 100644
--- a/libarchive/Pkgfile
+++ b/libarchive/Pkgfile
@@ -4,16 +4,13 @@
 # Depends on: bzip2, zlib
 
 name=libarchive
-version=2.7.0
-release=4
-source=(http://$name.googlecode.com/files/$name-$version.tar.gz
-        libarchive.diff)
+version=2.7.1
+release=1
+source=(http://$name.googlecode.com/files/$name-$version.tar.gz)
 
 build() {
 	cd libarchive-$version
 
-	patch -p0 -i $SRC/libarchive.diff
-
 	# We're passing --without-lzmadec, because we want to use xz for
 	# LZMA support, not the obsolete lzmadec library.
 	./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/man \
diff --git a/libarchive/libarchive.diff b/libarchive/libarchive.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 38145de9..00000000
--- a/libarchive/libarchive.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-Index: libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_xz.c
-===================================================================
---- libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_xz.c	(revision 1146)
-+++ libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_xz.c	(revision 1147)
-@@ -302,11 +302,11 @@
- 	 */
- 	if (self->code == ARCHIVE_COMPRESSION_XZ)
- 		ret = lzma_stream_decoder(&(state->stream),
--		    (1U << 23) + (1U << 21),/* memlimit */
-+		    (1U << 30),/* memlimit */
- 		    LZMA_CONCATENATED);
- 	else
- 		ret = lzma_alone_decoder(&(state->stream),
--		    (1U << 23) + (1U << 21));/* memlimit */
-+		    (1U << 30));/* memlimit */
- 
- 	if (ret == LZMA_OK)
- 		return (ARCHIVE_OK);
-Index: libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_gzip.c
-===================================================================
---- libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_gzip.c	(revision 1103)
-+++ libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_gzip.c	(revision 1104)
-@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@
- 		if (p == NULL)
- 			return (0);
- 		len += ((int)p[len + 1] << 8) | (int)p[len];
-+		len += 2;
- 	}
- 
- 	/* Null-terminated optional filename. */
-