diff --git a/newsbeuter/.md5sum b/newsbeuter/.md5sum
index 87666a095..37d4125f3 100644
--- a/newsbeuter/.md5sum
+++ b/newsbeuter/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-67fd0d44a55e10ed1ba15b197262a35f  newsbeuter-2.4.tar.gz
+bb8cd3f2a3693de4c16be28c869a1f75  newsbeuter-2.5.tar.gz
diff --git a/newsbeuter/Pkgfile b/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
index 15e143249..4279df621 100644
--- a/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
+++ b/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 # Description: RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals
 # URL:         http://www.newsbeuter.org/
 # Maintainer:  Juergen Daubert, jue at crux dot nu
-# Depends on:  curl libxml2 sqlite3 stfl
+# Depends on:  curl libxml2 sqlite3 stfl json-c
 
 name=newsbeuter
-version=2.4
+version=2.5
 release=1
 source=(http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/$name-$version.tar.gz)
 
 build () {
     cd $name-$version
-    sed -i 's|ncursesw/||' src/{controller,view}.cpp
     export prefix=/usr mandir=/usr/man
     ./config.sh
     make