diff --git a/package/dosfstools/dosfstools.mk b/package/dosfstools/dosfstools.mk
index 91be3b7e..ba48a7c4 100644
--- a/package/dosfstools/dosfstools.mk
+++ b/package/dosfstools/dosfstools.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-DOSFSTOOLS_VERSION = 4.1
+DOSFSTOOLS_VERSION = 4.2
 DOSFSTOOLS_DIR = dosfstools-$(DOSFSTOOLS_VERSION)
-DOSFSTOOLS_SOURCE = dosfstools-$(DOSFSTOOLS_VERSION).tar.xz
+DOSFSTOOLS_SOURCE = dosfstools-$(DOSFSTOOLS_VERSION).tar.gz
 DOSFSTOOLS_SITE = https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/download/v$(DOSFSTOOLS_VERSION)
 
 DOSFSTOOLS_CFLAGS = $(TARGET_CFLAGS) -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fomit-frame-pointer
diff --git a/package/dosfstools/patches/switch-to-AC_CHECK_LIB-for-iconv-library-linking.patch b/package/dosfstools/patches/switch-to-AC_CHECK_LIB-for-iconv-library-linking.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ea933208..00000000
--- a/package/dosfstools/patches/switch-to-AC_CHECK_LIB-for-iconv-library-linking.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-From 1c6c135ee15e449c1bf2e76d5307f83a3a1d7425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=81lvaro=20Fern=C3=A1ndez=20Rojas?= <noltari@gmail.com>
-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:07:48 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Switch to AC_CHECK_LIB for iconv library linking.
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-AC_SEARCH_LIB doesn't work properly for openwrt/lede when building dosfstools
-as a package.
-
-Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
----
- configure.ac | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ if test "x$with_udev" != "xno"; then
- 		  [true])
- fi
- 
--AC_SEARCH_LIBS(iconv_open, iconv)
-+AC_CHECK_LIB(iconv, iconv_open)
- 
- # xxd (distributed with vim) is used in the testsuite
- AC_CHECK_PROG([XXD_FOUND], [xxd], [yes])