diff --git a/community/exim/APKBUILD b/community/exim/APKBUILD
index 7ac89654fd6..93cab639bc0 100644
--- a/community/exim/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/exim/APKBUILD
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Contributor: Jesse Young <jlyo@jlyo.org>
 # Maintainer: Celeste <cielesti@protonmail.com>
 pkgname=exim
-pkgver=4.97.1
+pkgver=4.98
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Message Transfer Agent"
 url="https://www.exim.org/"
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ subpackages="$pkgname-cdb $pkgname-dbmdb $pkgname-dnsdb $pkgname-doc
 	"
 source="https://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-$pkgver.tar.xz
 	bounce-charset.patch
-	dnsdb-multi-chunk.patch
 	exim.Makefile
 	exim.confd
 	exim.initd
@@ -35,6 +34,8 @@ source="https://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-$pkgver.tar.xz
 	"
 
 # secfixes:
+#   4.98-r0:
+#     - CVE-2024-39929
 #   4.97.1-r0:
 #     - CVE-2023-51766
 #   4.96.2-r0:
@@ -159,9 +160,8 @@ dbmdb() { _mv_ext dbmdb; }
 dnsdb() { _mv_ext dnsdb; }
 
 sha512sums="
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+13dd963dd0899bb4d64bee44c20883e720e469a4d77456b877d6693cfc4419805a045cb561508cdf763dbb37cc84fbdc6177d68acc2183934c3224fbd03caf15  exim-4.98.tar.xz
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-0599b5140495a563da1e5368045ad9a6fe496c8b519591359f9915bc9d036183ae83584d5e62dd5bd95d6e5554c93483b7968fee8536068b36fd93c4f32dfa25  dnsdb-multi-chunk.patch
 198224ca544c2780c5d8106bb74304d871dcfde7d90707291d7e478b8950efe33488accfd896cb86b1a5b4f32ae6040ac0c44907f1b0843ef64037bea55f5e66  exim.Makefile
 bb6f5ead067af19ace661cc92bcd428da97570aedd1f9dc5b61a34e7e3fb3e028be6c96d51df73353bdfcaf69a3ee053fb03d245f868d63ebf518aa96ec82d66  exim.confd
 3769e74a54566362bcdf57c45fbf7d130d7a7529fbc40befce431eef0387df117c71a5b57779c507e30d5b125913b5f26c9d16b17995521a1d94997be6dc3e02  exim.initd
diff --git a/community/exim/dnsdb-multi-chunk.patch b/community/exim/dnsdb-multi-chunk.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b65a658551..00000000000
--- a/community/exim/dnsdb-multi-chunk.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-Adapted from https://git.exim.org/exim.git/patch/79670d3c32ccb37fe06f25d8192943b58606a32a
-
-Reference: https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3054
---
-From 79670d3c32ccb37fe06f25d8192943b58606a32a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>
-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:55:17 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] Lookups: Fix dnsdb lookup of multi-chunk TXT.  Bug 3054
-
-Broken=by: f6b1f8e7d642
-
---- a/src/lookups/dnsdb.c
-+++ b/src/lookups/dnsdb.c
-@@ -387,38 +387,31 @@ while ((domain = string_nextinlist(&keystring, &sep, NULL, 0)))
-         }
- 
-       /* Other kinds of record just have one piece of data each, but there may be
--      several of them, of course. */
-+      several of them, of course.  TXT & SPF can have data in multiple chunks. */
- 
-       if (yield->ptr) yield = string_catn(yield, outsep, 1);
- 
-       if (type == T_TXT || type == T_SPF)
--        {
--        if (!outsep2)			/* output only the first item of data */
-+	for (unsigned data_offset = 0; data_offset + 1 < rr->size; )
- 	  {
--	  uschar n = (rr->data)[0];
--	  /* size byte + data bytes must not excced the RRs length */
--	  if (n + 1 <= rr->size)
--	    yield = string_catn(yield, US (rr->data+1), n);
-+	  uschar chunk_len = (rr->data)[data_offset];
-+	  int remain;
-+
-+	  if (outsep2 && *outsep2 && data_offset != 0)
-+	    yield = string_catn(yield, outsep2, 1);
-+
-+	  /* Apparently there are resolvers that do not check RRs before passing
-+	  them on, and glibc fails to do so.  So every application must...
-+	  Check for chunk len exceeding RR */
-+
-+	  remain = rr->size - ++data_offset;
-+	  if (chunk_len > remain)
-+	    chunk_len = remain;
-+	  yield = string_catn(yield, US ((rr->data) + data_offset), chunk_len);
-+	  data_offset += chunk_len;
-+
-+	  if (!outsep2) break;		/* output only the first chunk of the RR */
- 	  }
--        else
--          for (unsigned data_offset = 0; data_offset < rr->size; )
--            {
--            uschar chunk_len = (rr->data)[data_offset];
--	    int remain = rr->size - data_offset;
--
--	    /* Apparently there are resolvers that do not check RRs before passing
--	    them on, and glibc fails to do so.  So every application must...
--	    Check for chunk len exceeding RR */
--
--	    if (chunk_len > remain)
--	      chunk_len = remain;
--
--            if (*outsep2  && data_offset != 0)
--              yield = string_catn(yield, outsep2, 1);
--            yield = string_catn(yield, US ((rr->data) + ++data_offset), --chunk_len);
--            data_offset += chunk_len;
--            }
--        }
-       else if (type == T_TLSA)
- 	if (rr->size < 3)
- 	  continue;