diff --git a/package/privoxy/Config.in b/package/privoxy/Config.in
index 4138c0d281..d1133976e4 100644
--- a/package/privoxy/Config.in
+++ b/package/privoxy/Config.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PRIVOXY
 	bool "privoxy"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE2 if !BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
 	help
 	  A non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities
diff --git a/package/privoxy/privoxy.hash b/package/privoxy/privoxy.hash
index 3c96c5644e..cfb6f5a5c8 100644
--- a/package/privoxy/privoxy.hash
+++ b/package/privoxy/privoxy.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# From https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/4.0.0%20%28stable%29/
-sha1  d302cb0bf23536e67a1b5505d01486a335d9c4c0  privoxy-4.0.0-stable-src.tar.gz
+# From https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/4.1.0%20%28stable%29/
+sha1  6afc12dc38781a37670c7e4bb69700900123084f  privoxy-4.1.0-stable-src.tar.gz
 # Locally computed
-sha256  c08e2ba0049307017bf9d8a63dd2a0dfb96aa0cdeb34ae007776e63eba62a26f  privoxy-4.0.0-stable-src.tar.gz
+sha256  23e4686e5848c74cb680c09c2811f0357739ecfe641f9c4072ee42399092c97b  privoxy-4.1.0-stable-src.tar.gz
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/privoxy/privoxy.mk b/package/privoxy/privoxy.mk
index 64e8fb24db..bfd4996292 100644
--- a/package/privoxy/privoxy.mk
+++ b/package/privoxy/privoxy.mk
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PRIVOXY_VERSION = 4.0.0
+PRIVOXY_VERSION = 4.1.0
 PRIVOXY_SITE = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ijbswa/Sources/$(PRIVOXY_VERSION)%20%28stable%29
 PRIVOXY_SOURCE = privoxy-$(PRIVOXY_VERSION)-stable-src.tar.gz
 # configure not shipped
 PRIVOXY_AUTORECONF = YES
-PRIVOXY_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE2),pcre2,pcre) zlib
+PRIVOXY_DEPENDENCIES = pcre2 zlib
 PRIVOXY_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 PRIVOXY_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 PRIVOXY_CPE_ID_VENDOR = privoxy