diff --git a/main/libevent/APKBUILD b/main/libevent/APKBUILD
index 632db86c63a..aee7ae8c3ec 100644
--- a/main/libevent/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/libevent/APKBUILD
@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@
 pkgname=libevent
 pkgver=2.1.12
 _pkgver=$pkgver-stable
-pkgrel=7
+pkgrel=8
 pkgdesc="An event notification library"
 url="https://libevent.org/"
 arch="all"
 license="BSD-3-Clause"
-options="!check" # regression tests failed
 depends_dev="python3"
 makedepends="$depends_dev openssl-dev>3"
 subpackages="$pkgname-static $pkgname-dev"
@@ -35,7 +34,8 @@ build() {
 		--build=$CBUILD \
 		--host=$CHOST \
 		--prefix=/usr \
-		--sysconfdir=/etc
+		--sysconfdir=/etc \
+		--disable-libevent-regress
 	make
 }