diff --git a/package/libcec/0001-fixed-don-t-generate-an-invalid-env.h-when-not-built.patch b/package/libcec/0001-fixed-don-t-generate-an-invalid-env.h-when-not-built.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d823a5b27d..0000000000
--- a/package/libcec/0001-fixed-don-t-generate-an-invalid-env.h-when-not-built.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-From 369ffb5be23eca520df99732541d0482da271fd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Lars Op den Kamp <lars@opdenkamp.eu>
-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:53:17 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] fixed: don't generate an invalid env.h when not built with
- the .git dir present. closes #112
-
-Backported from upstream commit 2f32a9debc1f148b5dfcfc463480f1432bb71725.
-
-Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
----
- support/git-rev.sh | 7 +++++--
- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/support/git-rev.sh b/support/git-rev.sh
-index 5dce3d0..4aadae6 100755
---- a/support/git-rev.sh
-+++ b/support/git-rev.sh
-@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
- #!/bin/sh
- 
- ## cmake doesn't read the variable when it doesn't end with a newline, and I haven't figured out how to have it add a newline directly...
--echo -n "`git --no-pager log --abbrev=7 -n 1 --pretty=format:"%h"`\n"
--
-+if [ -d .git ]; then
-+  echo "`git --no-pager log --abbrev=7 -n 1 --pretty=format:"%h"`"
-+else
-+  echo "<unknown>"
-+fi
--- 
-2.5.0
-
diff --git a/package/libcec/libcec.hash b/package/libcec/libcec.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..377f343a22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libcec/libcec.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Locally computed
+sha256  0f29d5a2d155b507807ba896bc3b3e50a0ab56bf8f543a2bf5c2798c790292b5  libcec-2c675dac48387c48c7f43c5d2547ef0c4ef5c7dd.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/libcec/libcec.mk b/package/libcec/libcec.mk
index c5b008f9b4..b762d88d71 100644
--- a/package/libcec/libcec.mk
+++ b/package/libcec/libcec.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBCEC_VERSION = libcec-3.0.1
+LIBCEC_VERSION = 2c675dac48387c48c7f43c5d2547ef0c4ef5c7dd
 LIBCEC_SITE = $(call github,Pulse-Eight,libcec,$(LIBCEC_VERSION))
 LIBCEC_LICENSE = GPLv2+
 LIBCEC_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING