diff --git a/package/snappy/0001-Add-inline-with-SNAPPY_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE.patch b/package/snappy/0001-Add-inline-with-SNAPPY_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bd2ef07794
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/snappy/0001-Add-inline-with-SNAPPY_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+From 0c716d435abe65250100c2caea0e5126ac4e14bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Georgi D. Sotirov" <gdsotirov@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 14:16:46 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Add inline with SNAPPY_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
+
+Add inline with SNAPPY_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE on AdvanceToNextTag to
+fix the following compilation errors and a warning with GCC:
+
+[  2%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/snappy.dir/snappy.cc.o
+/usr/bin/c++   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Dsnappy_EXPORTS
+-I/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/build -I/tmp/snappy-1.1.9  -O3
+-march=i586 -mtune=i686 -Wall -Wextra -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -O3
+-DNDEBUG -fPIC   -std=c++11 -o CMakeFiles/snappy.dir/snappy.cc.o -c
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc:1017:8: warning: always_inline
+function might not be inlinable [-Wattributes]
+ size_t AdvanceToNextTag(const uint8_t** ip_p, size_t* tag) {
+        ^
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc: In function 'std::pair<const
+unsigned char*, int> snappy::DecompressBranchless(const uint8_t*, const
+uint8_t*, ptrdiff_t, T, ptrdiff_t) [with T = char*; uint8_t = unsigned
+char; ptrdiff_t = int]':
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc:1017:8: error: inlining failed in
+call to always_inline 'size_t snappy::AdvanceToNextTag(const uint8_t**,
+size_t*)': function body can be overwritten at link time
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc:1097:53: error: called from here
+         size_t tag_type = AdvanceToNextTag(&ip, &tag);
+                                                     ^
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc:1017:8: error: inlining failed in
+call to always_inline 'size_t snappy::AdvanceToNextTag(const uint8_t**,
+size_t*)': function body can be overwritten at link time
+ size_t AdvanceToNextTag(const uint8_t** ip_p, size_t* tag) {
+        ^
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc:1097:53: error: called from here
+         size_t tag_type = AdvanceToNextTag(&ip, &tag);
+                                                     ^
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc:1017:8: error: inlining failed in
+call to always_inline 'size_t snappy::AdvanceToNextTag(const uint8_t**,
+size_t*)': function body can be overwritten at link time
+ size_t AdvanceToNextTag(const uint8_t** ip_p, size_t* tag) {
+        ^
+/tmp/snappy-1.1.9/snappy.cc:1097:53: error: called from here
+         size_t tag_type = AdvanceToNextTag(&ip, &tag);
+                                                     ^
+CMakeFiles/snappy.dir/build.make:137: recipe for target
+'CMakeFiles/snappy.dir/snappy.cc.o' failed
+
+Just like with other functions using SNAPPY_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
+macro (i.e. __attribute__((always_inline)) ) it is necessary to use C++
+inline specifier.
+
+[Retrieved from:
+https://github.com/google/snappy/pull/128/commits/0c716d435abe65250100c2caea0e5126ac4e14bd]
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+---
+ snappy.cc | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/snappy.cc b/snappy.cc
+index 79dc0e8d..51157be2 100644
+--- a/snappy.cc
++++ b/snappy.cc
+@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ void MemMove(ptrdiff_t dst, const void* src, size_t size) {
+ }
+ 
+ SNAPPY_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
+-size_t AdvanceToNextTag(const uint8_t** ip_p, size_t* tag) {
++inline size_t AdvanceToNextTag(const uint8_t** ip_p, size_t* tag) {
+   const uint8_t*& ip = *ip_p;
+   // This section is crucial for the throughput of the decompression loop.
+   // The latency of an iteration is fundamentally constrained by the
diff --git a/package/snappy/snappy.hash b/package/snappy/snappy.hash
index c08c5b7fe4..b49b0e7e3b 100644
--- a/package/snappy/snappy.hash
+++ b/package/snappy/snappy.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 16b677f07832a612b0836178db7f374e414f94657c138e6993cbfc5dcc58651f  snappy-1.1.8.tar.gz
-sha256 55172044f7e241207117448a4d9d6ba1d0925c8ad66b5d4c08c70adfa9cc3de6  COPYING
+sha256  75c1fbb3d618dd3a0483bff0e26d0a92b495bbe5059c8b4f1c962b478b6e06e7  snappy-1.1.9.tar.gz
+sha256  55172044f7e241207117448a4d9d6ba1d0925c8ad66b5d4c08c70adfa9cc3de6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/snappy/snappy.mk b/package/snappy/snappy.mk
index e1fa28fbce..d31dcdd5fe 100644
--- a/package/snappy/snappy.mk
+++ b/package/snappy/snappy.mk
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SNAPPY_VERSION = 1.1.8
+SNAPPY_VERSION = 1.1.9
 SNAPPY_SITE = $(call github,google,snappy,$(SNAPPY_VERSION))
 SNAPPY_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 SNAPPY_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 SNAPPY_CPE_ID_VENDOR = google
 SNAPPY_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
-SNAPPY_CONF_OPTS = -DSNAPPY_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
+SNAPPY_CONF_OPTS = -DSNAPPY_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF -DSNAPPY_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
 
 $(eval $(cmake-package))