diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index cc09f0842e9..daf2b80acbb 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2176,7 +2176,7 @@ libKF5CddbWidgets.so.5 libkcddb-17.08.2_1
 libKF5Cddb.so.5 libkcddb-17.08.2_1
 libk3bdevice.so.7 k3b-17.08.2_1
 libk3blib.so.7 k3b-17.08.2_1
-libsndio.so.7.0 libsndio-1.4.0_1
+libsndio.so.7 libsndio-1.7.0_1
 libopenconnect.so.5 openconnect-7.05_1
 libusbredirparser.so.1 usbredir-0.7_1
 libusbredirhost.so.1 usbredir-0.7_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sndio/patches/7a03da2.patch b/srcpkgs/sndio/patches/7a03da2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..26c15cddcba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sndio/patches/7a03da2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+From 7a03da2848551e6bd9d3e06d2beee4b2d438a999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Duncan Overbruck <mail@duncano.de>
+Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:36:58 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Add libsndio.so.${MAJ} symlink and use it as SONAME on linux
+
+This avoids having to rebuild a lot of packages even if the
+ABI did not break. cubeb used by firefox currently dlopen's
+either libsndio.so.7.1 or libsndio.so, with the major link
+this would also avoid having to patch this as long as the
+ABI doesn't break without having to ship the libsndio.so
+symlink outside of -dev/-devel packages.
+---
+ configure            | 4 +++-
+ libsndio/Makefile.in | 8 ++++++--
+ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure b/configure
+index 94829c4..eb2ea9e 100755
+--- configure
++++ configure
+@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ case `uname` in
+ 		alsa=yes
+ 		ldadd="-lrt"
+ 		user=sndiod
+-		so_ldflags="-Wl,-soname=libsndio.so.\${MAJ}.\${MIN}"
+ 		so_link="libsndio.so"
++		so_link_maj="libsndio.so.\${MAJ}"
++		so_ldflags="-Wl,-soname=libsndio.so.\${MAJ}"
+ 		defs='-D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_SOCK_CLOEXEC -DHAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME'
+ 		;;
+ 	NetBSD)
+@@ -268,6 +269,7 @@ do
+ 	-e "s:@ldadd@:$ldadd:" \
+ 	-e "s:@so@:$so:" \
+ 	-e "s:@so_link@:$so_link:" \
++	-e "s:@so_link_maj@:$so_link_maj:" \
+ 	-e "s:@so_ldflags@:$so_ldflags:" \
+ 	-e "s:@vars@:${vars}:" \
+ 	-e "s:@precision@:$precision:" \
+diff --git a/libsndio/Makefile.in b/libsndio/Makefile.in
+index 58ec1e7..36f1fd9 100644
+--- libsndio/Makefile.in
++++ libsndio/Makefile.in
+@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ MAJ = 7
+ MIN = 1
+ SO = @so@
+ SO_LINK = @so_link@
++SO_LINK_MAJ = @so_link_maj@
+ 
+-all:		${SO} ${SO_LINK}
++all:		${SO} ${SO_LINK} ${SO_LINK_MAJ}
+ 
+ 
+ install:
+@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ install:
+ 		mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${MAN3_DIR}
+ 		mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${MAN7_DIR}
+ 		cp sndio.h ${DESTDIR}${INCLUDE_DIR}
+-		cp -R ${SO} ${SO_LINK} ${DESTDIR}${LIB_DIR}
++		cp -R ${SO} ${SO_LINK} ${SO_LINK_MAJ} ${DESTDIR}${LIB_DIR}
+ 		cp sio_open.3 ${DESTDIR}${MAN3_DIR}
+ 		ln -sf sio_open.3 ${DESTDIR}${MAN3_DIR}/sio_close.3
+ 		ln -sf sio_open.3 ${DESTDIR}${MAN3_DIR}/sio_setpar.3
+@@ -126,6 +127,9 @@ ${SO}:		${OBJS}
+ ${SO_LINK}:
+ 		ln -sf ${SO} ${SO_LINK}
+ 
++${SO_LINK_MAJ}:
++		ln -sf ${SO} ${SO_LINK_MAJ}
++
+ issetugid.o:	../bsd-compat/issetugid.c
+ 		${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${SO_CFLAGS} ${INCLUDE} ${DEFS} -c -o issetugid.o ../bsd-compat/issetugid.c
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sndio/template b/srcpkgs/sndio/template
index ae62ca79304..76524cdc03c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/sndio/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/sndio/template
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 # Template file for 'sndio'
 pkgname=sndio
-version=1.6.0
+version=1.7.0
 revision=1
 build_style=configure
 configure_args="--prefix=/usr"
 makedepends="alsa-lib-devel"
 short_desc="Small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project"
-maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
+maintainer="Duncaen <duncaen@voidlinux.org>"
 license="ISC"
 system_accounts="sndiod"
 sndiod_descr="sndio daemon"
 sndiod_pgroup="audio"
 homepage="http://www.sndio.org/"
 distfiles="http://www.sndio.org/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=99e0064ac11aceab24c73ed4630a31de401ff2f37689565b7b375682476f5bc1
+checksum=dda4e3d0879423ed57923975ba74668cbb9299939cad579b0ac64a4b01535552
 
 post_install() {
 	vsv sndiod
@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ post_install() {
 
 libsndio_package() {
 	short_desc+=" -- library"
+	shlib_provides="libsndio.so.7.0"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove "usr/lib/libsndio.so.*"
+		# compat symlink until everything is built with libsndio.so.7 as SONAME
+		ln -sf libsndio.7 ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/libsndio.7.0
 	}
 }
 sndio-devel_package() {