diff --git a/package/dialog/Config.in b/package/dialog/Config.in
index 929ab466aa..fc0e8fd51d 100644
--- a/package/dialog/Config.in
+++ b/package/dialog/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_DIALOG
 	bool "dialog"
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # fork()
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV if !BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE
@@ -12,7 +11,3 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_DIALOG
 	  of a script to interact with the user in a much friendlier manner.
 
 	  http://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html
-
-comment "dialog needs a toolchain w/ threads"
-	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
diff --git a/package/dialog/dialog.hash b/package/dialog/dialog.hash
index 1ffbafbebc..75a79189c8 100644
--- a/package/dialog/dialog.hash
+++ b/package/dialog/dialog.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	d054766fba3dac828851f1c9852e5992eb824fd0a0dd26d87ee517242027bafc	dialog-1.2-20140911.tgz
+sha256	1d98ec7cc81f11f9019fa0b90f1afdaa86579cae1ce8869a6fd61deb9d4b887a	dialog-1.2-20150125.tgz
diff --git a/package/dialog/dialog.mk b/package/dialog/dialog.mk
index 0ecbddbb80..f207f75704 100644
--- a/package/dialog/dialog.mk
+++ b/package/dialog/dialog.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-DIALOG_VERSION = 1.2-20140911
+DIALOG_VERSION = 1.2-20150125
 DIALOG_SOURCE = dialog-$(DIALOG_VERSION).tgz
 DIALOG_SITE = ftp://invisible-island.net/dialog
 DIALOG_CONF_OPTS = --with-ncurses --with-curses-dir=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr \
diff --git a/package/python-dialog/Config.in b/package/python-dialog/Config.in
index 8dd3fdf4e7..c1fdb23723 100644
--- a/package/python-dialog/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-dialog/Config.in
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DIALOG
 	bool "python-dialog"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # dialog
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # dialog
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_DIALOG
 	help
@@ -9,7 +8,3 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DIALOG
 	  mostly-compatible programs.
 
 	  http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/
-
-comment "python-dialog needs a toolchain w/ threads"
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU && BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
-	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS