diff --git a/package/luaposix/Config.in b/package/luaposix/Config.in
index 439dc42f56..8b24574b9e 100644
--- a/package/luaposix/Config.in
+++ b/package/luaposix/Config.in
@@ -1,19 +1,15 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_LUAPOSIX
 	bool "luaposix"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LUAINTERPRETER
-	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_3
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUABITOP if BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_1
 	# LuaBitOp is already included in LuaJIT
 	help
-	  luaposix is a POSIX binding, including curses, for Lua 5.1
-	  and 5.2; Like most libraries it simply binds to C APIs on
-	  the underlying system, so it won't work on a non-POSIX
-	  system. However, it does try to detect the level of POSIX
+	  luaposix is a POSIX binding, including curses, for Lua 5.1,
+	  5.2 and 5.3; like most libraries it simply binds to C APIs on
+	  the underlying system, so it won't work on non-POSIX
+	  systems. However, it does try to detect the level of POSIX
 	  conformance of the underlying system and bind only available
-	  APIs
+	  APIs.
 
 	  https://github.com/luaposix/luaposix
-
-comment "luaposix needs a Lua 5.1/5.2 interpreter"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_3
diff --git a/package/luaposix/luaposix.mk b/package/luaposix/luaposix.mk
index 5d4147203e..ea4ab0291f 100644
--- a/package/luaposix/luaposix.mk
+++ b/package/luaposix/luaposix.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LUAPOSIX_VERSION = 33.0.0
+LUAPOSIX_VERSION = 33.3.1
 LUAPOSIX_SITE = $(call github,luaposix,luaposix,release-v$(LUAPOSIX_VERSION))
 LUAPOSIX_LICENSE = MIT
 LUAPOSIX_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING