diff --git a/package/bpftrace/Config.in b/package/bpftrace/Config.in
index 8af94443ab..2beb2fdb95 100644
--- a/package/bpftrace/Config.in
+++ b/package/bpftrace/Config.in
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BPFTRACE
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 # bcc -> clang
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # bcc -> clang
 	depends on BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 # bcc -> clang
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_13 # libbpf
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_5_10 # CAP_BPF, CAP_PERFMON
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # bcc -> clang, bcc -> python3, libbpf
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # bcc -> clang, bcc -> python3, libbpf
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # bcc -> clang, bcc -> python3, libbpf
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BPFTRACE
 
 	  https://www.github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
 
-comment "bpftrace needs a glibc toolchain w/ C++, gcc >= 7, host gcc >= 7, kernel headers >= 4.13"
+comment "bpftrace needs a glibc toolchain w/ C++, gcc >= 7, host gcc >= 7, kernel headers >= 5.10"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BPFTRACE_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP \
 		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 || !BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 \
-		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_13
+		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_5_10
diff --git a/package/bpftrace/bpftrace.hash b/package/bpftrace/bpftrace.hash
index 4add96aee3..48572d1c58 100644
--- a/package/bpftrace/bpftrace.hash
+++ b/package/bpftrace/bpftrace.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # locally calculated
-sha256  e0514aa3e1a032b0b2de2cf3c281bfee9b9e80509498e70ed78786bbd64db373  bpftrace-0.24.2.tar.gz
+sha256  555368f32f94bfcb74b119a3d9c67b68200be6375b8f452f794a2d3f6ebbcd16  bpftrace-0.26.1.tar.gz
 sha256  cfc7749b96f63bd31c3c42b5c471bf756814053e847c10f3eb003417bc523d30  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/bpftrace/bpftrace.mk b/package/bpftrace/bpftrace.mk
index f530d4861b..7c9bc6b7a4 100644
--- a/package/bpftrace/bpftrace.mk
+++ b/package/bpftrace/bpftrace.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BPFTRACE_VERSION = 0.24.2
+BPFTRACE_VERSION = 0.26.1
 BPFTRACE_SITE = $(call github,bpftrace,bpftrace,v$(BPFTRACE_VERSION))
 BPFTRACE_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 BPFTRACE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ BPFTRACE_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	bzip2 \
 	cereal \
 	elfutils \
-	host-bison \
-	host-flex \
 	host-vim \
 	libbpf \
 	llvm \
@@ -29,6 +27,7 @@ BPFTRACE_CONF_OPTS += \
 	-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF \
 	-DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF \
 	-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$(TARGET_CXXFLAGS) -I$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/bpf" \
-	-DENABLE_MAN:BOOL=OFF
+	-DENABLE_MAN:BOOL=OFF \
+	-DUSE_SYSTEM_LIBBPF:BOOL=ON
 
 $(eval $(cmake-package))