diff --git a/community/lapack/APKBUILD b/community/lapack/APKBUILD
index 2d4d94837b7..6cf5a1ad006 100644
--- a/community/lapack/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/lapack/APKBUILD
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 # Contributor: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 # Maintainer: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=lapack
-pkgver=3.8.0
-pkgrel=1
+pkgver=3.9.0
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Linear Algebra PACKage"
 url="http://www.netlib.org/lapack"
 arch="all"
 license="custom"
-depends=""
+options="!check" #no longer test available
 makedepends="gfortran cmake"
-install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev"
 source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/$pkgname/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver
@@ -37,14 +36,9 @@ build() {
 	  make
 }
 
-check() {
-	cd "$builddir"/sandbox
-	make test
-}
-
 package() {
 	cd "$builddir"/sandbox
 	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
 }
 
-sha512sums="17786cb7306fccdc9b4a242de7f64fc261ebe6a10b6ec55f519deb4cb673cb137e8742aa5698fd2dc52f1cd56d3bd116af3f593a01dcf6770c4dcc86c50b2a7f  lapack-3.8.0.tar.gz"
+sha512sums="424956ad941a60a4b71e0d451ad48db12a692f8a71a90f3ca7f71d6ecc1922f392746ea84df1c47a46577ed2db32e9e47ec44ad248207c5ac7da179becb712ef  lapack-3.9.0.tar.gz"