diff --git a/net/apache/Makefile b/net/apache/Makefile
index 1dd22bdb8..234ffca29 100644
--- a/net/apache/Makefile
+++ b/net/apache/Makefile
@@ -8,25 +8,31 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=apache
-PKG_VERSION:=2.4.37
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_VERSION:=2.4.41
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
 PKG_SOURCE_NAME:=httpd
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_SOURCE_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@APACHE/httpd/
-PKG_HASH:=3498dc5c6772fac2eb7307dc7963122ffe243b5e806e0be4fb51974ff759d726
+PKG_HASH:=133d48298fe5315ae9366a0ec66282fa4040efa5d566174481077ade7d18ea40
 
 PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/$(PKG_SOURCE_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION)
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Thomas Heil <heil@terminal-consulting.de>
-PKG_LICENSE:=Apache License
+PKG_LICENSE:=Apache-2.0
+PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENSE
+
 PKG_CPE_ID:=cpe:/a:apache:http_server
 
+PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1
+
 PKG_INSTALL:=1
 
 PKG_CONFIG_DEPENDS:= \
 	CONFIG_APACHE_HTTP2
 
+PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
+
 ADDITIONAL_MODULES:=
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_APACHE_HTTP2),y)
   ADDITIONAL_MODULES += --enable-http2
diff --git a/net/apache/patches/001-Makefile_in.patch b/net/apache/patches/001-Makefile_in.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4daf14f44..000000000
--- a/net/apache/patches/001-Makefile_in.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- a/server/Makefile.in
-+++ b/server/Makefile.in
-@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ gen_test_char: $(gen_test_char_OBJECTS)
- 	$(LINK) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(gen_test_char_OBJECTS) $(EXTRA_LIBS)
- 
- test_char.h: gen_test_char
--	./gen_test_char > test_char.h
-+	true
-+#	./gen_test_char > test_char.h
-+#	doesn't matter if you run it on the buildhost or on an wl500gd,
-+#	same output on both, so i just patched in the test_char.h :).
- 
- util.lo: test_char.h
- 
diff --git a/net/apache/patches/001-cross-compile.patch b/net/apache/patches/001-cross-compile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71b743db5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/apache/patches/001-cross-compile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+Fix cross-compilation
+
+Fetched httpd-2.4.x-cross_compile.diff from upstream bugtracker:
+https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51257#c6
+
+which is a bundle of upstream revisions:
+    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1327907
+    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1328390
+    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1328714
+
+Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
+
+--- a/server/Makefile.in
++++ b/server/Makefile.in
+@@ -24,9 +24,14 @@ TARGETS = delete-exports $(LTLIBRARY_NAM
+ include $(top_builddir)/build/rules.mk
+ include $(top_srcdir)/build/library.mk
+ 
++ifdef CC_FOR_BUILD
++gen_test_char: gen_test_char.c
++	$(CC_FOR_BUILD) $(CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) -DCROSS_COMPILE -o $@ $<
++else
+ gen_test_char_OBJECTS = gen_test_char.lo
+ gen_test_char: $(gen_test_char_OBJECTS)
+ 	$(LINK) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(gen_test_char_OBJECTS) $(EXTRA_LIBS)
++endif
+ 
+ test_char.h: gen_test_char
+ 	./gen_test_char > test_char.h
+--- a/configure.in
++++ b/configure.in
+@@ -206,6 +206,14 @@ AC_PROG_CPP
+ dnl Try to get c99 support for variadic macros
+ ifdef([AC_PROG_CC_C99], [AC_PROG_CC_C99])
+ 
++dnl In case of cross compilation we set CC_FOR_BUILD to cc unless
++dnl we got already CC_FOR_BUILD from environment.
++if test "x${build_alias}" != "x${host_alias}"; then
++  if test "x${CC_FOR_BUILD}" = "x"; then
++    CC_FOR_BUILD=cc
++  fi
++fi
++
+ if test "x${cache_file}" = "x/dev/null"; then
+   # Likewise, ensure that CC and CPP are passed through to the pcre
+   # configure script iff caching is disabled (the autoconf 2.5x default).
+--- a/acinclude.m4
++++ b/acinclude.m4
+@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([APACHE_GEN_CONFIG_VARS],[
+   APACHE_SUBST(CPPFLAGS)
+   APACHE_SUBST(CFLAGS)
+   APACHE_SUBST(CXXFLAGS)
++  APACHE_SUBST(CC_FOR_BUILD)
++  APACHE_SUBST(CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD)
+   APACHE_SUBST(LTFLAGS)
+   APACHE_SUBST(LDFLAGS)
+   APACHE_SUBST(LT_LDFLAGS)
diff --git a/net/apache/patches/002-test_char_h.patch b/net/apache/patches/002-test_char_h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ad07704bb..000000000
--- a/net/apache/patches/002-test_char_h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-Index: httpd-2.4.25/server/test_char.h
-===================================================================
---- /dev/null
-+++ httpd-2.4.25/server/test_char.h
-@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
-+/* this file is automatically generated by gen_test_char, do not edit */
-+#define T_ESCAPE_SHELL_CMD     (1)
-+#define T_ESCAPE_PATH_SEGMENT  (2)
-+#define T_OS_ESCAPE_PATH       (4)
-+#define T_HTTP_TOKEN_STOP      (8)
-+#define T_ESCAPE_LOGITEM       (16)
-+#define T_ESCAPE_FORENSIC      (32)
-+
-+static const unsigned char test_char_table[256] = {
-+    32,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,63,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,
-+    62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,14,0,23,6,1,38,1,1,
-+    9,9,1,0,8,0,0,10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,40,15,
-+    15,8,15,15,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
-+    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,15,31,15,7,0,7,0,0,0,
-+    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
-+    0,0,0,15,39,15,1,62,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,
-+    54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,
-+    54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,
-+    54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,
-+    54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,
-+    54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,
-+    54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54
-+};
-Index: httpd-2.4.25/server/util.c
-===================================================================
---- httpd-2.4.25.orig/server/util.c
-+++ httpd-2.4.25/server/util.c
-@@ -96,6 +96,16 @@
- #undef APLOG_MODULE_INDEX
- #define APLOG_MODULE_INDEX AP_CORE_MODULE_INDEX
- 
-+#define T_ESCAPE_SHELL_CMD    (0x01)
-+#define T_ESCAPE_PATH_SEGMENT (0x02)
-+#define T_OS_ESCAPE_PATH      (0x04)
-+#define T_HTTP_TOKEN_STOP     (0x08)
-+#define T_ESCAPE_LOGITEM      (0x10)
-+#define T_ESCAPE_FORENSIC     (0x20)
-+#define T_ESCAPE_URLENCODED   (0x40)
-+#define T_HTTP_CTRLS          (0x80)
-+#define T_VCHAR_OBSTEXT      (0x100)
-+
- /*
-  * Examine a field value (such as a media-/content-type) string and return
-  * it sans any parameters; e.g., strip off any ';charset=foo' and the like.