diff --git a/src/freexl.mk b/src/freexl.mk
index df3acc77..20abd908 100644
--- a/src/freexl.mk
+++ b/src/freexl.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ PKG             := freexl
 $(PKG)_WEBSITE  := https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/freexl/index
 $(PKG)_DESCR    := FreeXL
 $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
-$(PKG)_VERSION  := 1.0.3
-$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := f8ed29e03a6155454e538fce621e53991a270fcee31120ded339cff2523650a8
+$(PKG)_VERSION  := 1.0.5
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 3dc9b150d218b0e280a3d6a41d93c1e45f4d7155829d75f1e5bf3e0b0de6750d
 $(PKG)_SUBDIR   := freexl-$($(PKG)_VERSION)
 $(PKG)_FILE     := freexl-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz
 $(PKG)_URL      := https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/freexl-sources/$($(PKG)_FILE)
diff --git a/src/gdal.mk b/src/gdal.mk
index 64536f11..65b1adbd 100644
--- a/src/gdal.mk
+++ b/src/gdal.mk
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ PKG             := gdal
 $(PKG)_WEBSITE  := https://www.gdal.org/
 $(PKG)_DESCR    := GDAL
 $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
-$(PKG)_VERSION  := 2.2.3
-$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 52f01bda8968643633016769607e6082a8ba1c746fadc2c1abe12cf7dc8f61dd
+$(PKG)_VERSION  := 2.2.4
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 441eb1d1acb35238ca43a1a0a649493fc91fdcbab231d0747e9d462eea192278
 $(PKG)_SUBDIR   := gdal-$($(PKG)_VERSION)
-$(PKG)_FILE     := gdal-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz
+$(PKG)_FILE     := gdal-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.xz
 $(PKG)_URL      := https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/$($(PKG)_VERSION)/$($(PKG)_FILE)
 $(PKG)_DEPS     := cc armadillo curl expat geos giflib gta hdf4 hdf5 \
                    jpeg json-c libgeotiff libmysqlclient libpng libxml2 \
diff --git a/src/libftdi1.mk b/src/libftdi1.mk
index 8a5d1ece..be91419e 100644
--- a/src/libftdi1.mk
+++ b/src/libftdi1.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ PKG             := libftdi1
 $(PKG)_WEBSITE  := https://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/index.php
 $(PKG)_DESCR    := LibFTDI1
 $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
-$(PKG)_VERSION  := 1.2
-$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := a6ea795c829219015eb372b03008351cee3fb39f684bff3bf8a4620b558488d6
+$(PKG)_VERSION  := 1.4
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := ec36fb49080f834690c24008328a5ef42d3cf584ef4060f3a35aa4681cb31b74
 $(PKG)_SUBDIR   := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION)
 $(PKG)_FILE     := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.bz2
 $(PKG)_URL      := https://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/$($(PKG)_FILE)
diff --git a/src/libircclient-1-fixes.patch b/src/libircclient-1-fixes.patch
index a745ccc9..d38763b0 100644
--- a/src/libircclient-1-fixes.patch
+++ b/src/libircclient-1-fixes.patch
@@ -2,30 +2,10 @@ This file is part of MXE. See LICENSE.md for licensing information.
 
 Contains ad hoc patches for cross building.
 
-From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Mark Brand <mabrand@mabrand.nl>
-Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:37:07 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 1/2] use the proper WIN32 define
-
-
-diff --git a/include/libircclient.h b/include/libircclient.h
-index 1111111..2222222 100644
---- a/include/libircclient.h
-+++ b/include/libircclient.h
-@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
- 
- #include <stdlib.h>
- 
--#if !defined (WIN32)
-+#if !defined (_WIN32)
- 	#include <sys/select.h>	/* fd_set */
- #else
- 	#include <winsock2.h>
-
 From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Mark Brand <mabrand@mabrand.nl>
 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:37:29 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix missing header
+Subject: [PATCH 1/1] fix missing header
 
 
 diff --git a/include/libircclient.h b/include/libircclient.h
diff --git a/src/libircclient.mk b/src/libircclient.mk
index c73285c0..a4e487f0 100644
--- a/src/libircclient.mk
+++ b/src/libircclient.mk
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 PKG             := libircclient
 $(PKG)_WEBSITE  := https://sourceforge.net/projects/libircclient/
 $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
-$(PKG)_VERSION  := 1.8
-$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 2cf8523ac683588f2785b08159a2df3e4d15939ee655c0024aa86334149de8f6
+$(PKG)_VERSION  := 1.10
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := bbb26f3af348b252c5204917a7f91cfdf172f1b6afbf4df1e561b03e20503c2d
 $(PKG)_SUBDIR   := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION)
 $(PKG)_FILE     := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz
 $(PKG)_URL      := https://$(SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR)/project/$(PKG)/$(PKG)/$($(PKG)_VERSION)/$($(PKG)_FILE)
diff --git a/src/libqrencode-1-fixes.patch b/src/libqrencode-1-fixes.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 087aa29a..00000000
--- a/src/libqrencode-1-fixes.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-This file is part of MXE. See LICENSE.md for licensing information.
-
-Contains ad hoc patches for cross building.
-
-From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com>
-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:56:24 +1100
-Subject: [PATCH 1/1] install *.dll to bin
-
-taken from:
-https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode/issues/112
-
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 1111111..2222222 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ configure_file(libqrencode.pc.in libqrencode.pc @ONLY)
- install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/qrencode.1 DESTINATION share/man/man1)
- install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/libqrencode.pc DESTINATION lib/pkgconfig)
- install(FILES qrencode.h DESTINATION include)
--install(TARGETS qrencode DESTINATION lib)
-+install(TARGETS qrencode DESTINATION lib
-+                 RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
- 
- ## Build utility tools
- if(WITH_TOOLS AND TARGET PNG::PNG)
diff --git a/src/libqrencode.mk b/src/libqrencode.mk
index 52e764b0..01b2bcbe 100644
--- a/src/libqrencode.mk
+++ b/src/libqrencode.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ PKG             := libqrencode
 $(PKG)_WEBSITE  := https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/
 $(PKG)_DESCR    := a fast and compact QR Code encoding library
 $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
-$(PKG)_VERSION  := 4.0.0
-$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := c2c8a8110354463a3332cb48abf8581c8d94136af4dc1418f891cc9c7719e3c1
+$(PKG)_VERSION  := 4.0.2
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 43091fea4752101f0fe61a957310ead10a7cb4b81e170ce61e5baa73a6291ac2
 $(PKG)_GH_CONF  := fukuchi/libqrencode/tags,v
 $(PKG)_DEPS     := cc pthreads