diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnote/patches/meson-0.61.patch b/srcpkgs/gnote/patches/meson-0.61.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e5575c0fa3f..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/gnote/patches/meson-0.61.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-From 32795e53681e3ecbaaa05817d4eb5fa1c124d35b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:53:17 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] meson: drop unused argument for i18n.merge_file()
-
-Ignored in Meson < 0.60.0, deprecated since 0.60.1 and fatal since 0.61.0.
-
-data/meson.build:4:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
-data/meson.build:41:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
----
- data/meson.build | 2 --
- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
-index a6138165..8d16368a 100644
---- a/data/meson.build
-+++ b/data/meson.build
-@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ install_man('gnote.1')
- 
- desktop_file = 'org.gnome.Gnote.desktop'
- gnote_desktop_file = i18n.merge_file(
--  desktop_file,
-   type: 'desktop',
-   input: desktop_file + '.in',
-   output: desktop_file,
-@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ configure_file(
- 
- gnote_appdata = 'org.gnome.Gnote.appdata.xml'
- appdata_file = i18n.merge_file(
--  gnote_appdata,
-   input: gnote_appdata + '.in',
-   output: gnote_appdata,
-   po_dir: '../po',
--- 
-GitLab
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnote/template b/srcpkgs/gnote/template
index e25af9532c7..75efcfdb48a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gnote/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnote/template
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 # Template file for 'gnote'
 pkgname=gnote
-version=41.2
+version=42.0
 revision=1
 build_style=meson
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config intltool itstool desktop-file-utils"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config gettext itstool desktop-file-utils"
 makedepends="libsecret-devel libxslt-devel libuuid-devel gtkmm-devel
  libxml2-devel gtkspell3-devel"
 depends="desktop-file-utils"
+checkdepends="glib-devel"
 short_desc="GNOME note taking application"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gnote"
+changelog="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnote/-/raw/gnome-42/NEWS"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/gnote/${version%.*}/gnote-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=21b0ef43514e6b68a08ed8573130185be36dbb9fb463b426ebd9f18c5092423f
+checksum=319269f3ad6101bbd75d9d905916113dea22bc65c1fb579ac255cb9fae0a6499
 lib32disabled=yes