diff --git a/net/lighttpd/Makefile b/net/lighttpd/Makefile
index cb0ab7d7f..afe7a4a78 100644
--- a/net/lighttpd/Makefile
+++ b/net/lighttpd/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=lighttpd
 PKG_VERSION:=1.4.49
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_RELEASE:=3
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x
diff --git a/net/lighttpd/patches/010-openssl-deprecated.patch b/net/lighttpd/patches/010-openssl-deprecated.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b2176bfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/lighttpd/patches/010-openssl-deprecated.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git a/src/rand.c b/src/rand.c
+index 10cd025..63fbb0d 100644
+--- a/src/rand.c
++++ b/src/rand.c
+@@ -226,7 +226,9 @@ int li_rand_bytes (unsigned char *buf, int num)
+ void li_rand_cleanup (void)
+ {
+   #ifdef USE_OPENSSL_CRYPTO
++  #if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000L
+     RAND_cleanup();
++  #endif
+   #endif
+     safe_memclear(xsubi, sizeof(xsubi));
+ }