diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
index 7295c35546..60b12f7caa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ DEPENDS = "jpeg libpng freetype zlib tslib"
 INC_PR = "r0"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://directfb.org/downloads/Core/DirectFB-1.6/DirectFB-${PV}.tar.gz \
-           file://configurefix.patch \
-           file://mesa9.patch"
+           file://configurefix.patch"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/DirectFB-${PV}"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb/mesa9.patch b/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb/mesa9.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 43fd5c2040..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb/mesa9.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-Patch from upstream to fix build against Mesa 9.
-
-Upstream-Status: Backport
-Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
-
-From 54beba0715a4fead2a0aa5477977347f81fc2bc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Andreas Shimokawa <andi@directfb.org>
-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:01:15 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] mesa: fix compatibility with mesa 9.0
-
----
- systems/mesa/mesa_surface_pool.c |    2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/systems/mesa/mesa_surface_pool.c b/systems/mesa/mesa_surface_pool.c
-index 0a588bb..bfb5ff3 100644
---- a/systems/mesa/mesa_surface_pool.c
-+++ b/systems/mesa/mesa_surface_pool.c
-@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ mesaAllocateBuffer( CoreSurfacePool       *pool,
-      alloc->bo = gbm_bo_create( mesa->gbm, surface->config.size.w, surface->config.size.h, GBM_BO_FORMAT_ARGB8888,
-                                                                             GBM_BO_USE_SCANOUT | GBM_BO_USE_RENDERING );
-      alloc->handle = gbm_bo_get_handle( alloc->bo ).u32;
--     alloc->pitch  = gbm_bo_get_pitch( alloc->bo );
-+     alloc->pitch  = gbm_bo_get_stride( alloc->bo );
- 
-      alloc->image  = eglCreateImageKHR( mesa->dpy, NULL, EGL_NATIVE_PIXMAP_KHR, alloc->bo, NULL );
- 
--- 
-1.7.9.5
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb_1.6.1.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb_1.6.3.bb
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 76%
rename from meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb_1.6.1.bb
rename to meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb_1.6.3.bb
index 1230d12944..277e9a9b5e
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb_1.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb_1.6.3.bb
@@ -22,6 +22,5 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "\
 
 LEAD_SONAME = "libdirectfb-1.6.so.0"
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "76d3066e75664aa79204af545f2f3c65"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f47575ea35dd8a30e548c04bf52d8565756d0bed45d1cf9f8afac1cf9b521c45"
-
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "641e8e999c017770da647f9b5b890906"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7a96aced0f69b2ec0810e9923068e61c21e6b19dd593e09394c872414df75e70"