diff --git a/srcpkgs/kitty/patches/0001-freetype_render_ui_text-use-uint8_t-instead-of-u_int.patch b/srcpkgs/kitty/patches/0001-freetype_render_ui_text-use-uint8_t-instead-of-u_int.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7771e8857cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/kitty/patches/0001-freetype_render_ui_text-use-uint8_t-instead-of-u_int.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From 1b760b6c5393b2137410f539d068a84bae1c31ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?=C4=90o=C3=A0n=20Tr=E1=BA=A7n=20C=C3=B4ng=20Danh?=
+ <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:23:43 +0700
+Subject: [PATCH] freetype_render_ui_text: use uint8_t instead of u_int8_t
+
+uint8_t is a standard type, while u_int8_t isn't. And we're assigning to
+an uint8_t anyway.
+---
+ kitty/freetype_render_ui_text.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/kitty/freetype_render_ui_text.c b/kitty/freetype_render_ui_text.c
+index 8c8743b8..f22284f4 100644
+--- a/kitty/freetype_render_ui_text.c
++++ b/kitty/freetype_render_ui_text.c
+@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ render_line(PyObject *self UNUSED, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw) {
+     if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kw, "|sIIzppkkffI", (char**)kwlist, &text, &width, &height, &family, &bold, &italic, &fg, &bg, &x_offset, &y_offset, &right_margin)) return NULL;
+     PyObject *ans = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, (Py_ssize_t)width * height * 4);
+     if (!ans) return NULL;
+-    uint8_t *buffer = (u_int8_t*) PyBytes_AS_STRING(ans);
++    uint8_t *buffer = (uint8_t*) PyBytes_AS_STRING(ans);
+     RenderCtx *ctx = (RenderCtx*)create_freetype_render_context(family, bold, italic);
+     if (!ctx) return NULL;
+     if (!render_single_line((FreeTypeRenderCtx)ctx, text, 3 * height / 4, 0, 0xffffffff, buffer, width, height, x_offset, y_offset, right_margin)) {
+-- 
+2.31.1.500.gbc6bbdd36b
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/kitty/template b/srcpkgs/kitty/template
index 0b1d93b3911..5a8dcc8b4fb 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kitty/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/kitty/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'kitty'
 pkgname=kitty
-version=0.19.3
+version=0.20.1
 revision=1
 pycompile_dirs="usr/lib/kitty"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config python3 wayland-devel wayland-protocols"
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/"
 changelog="https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog.html"
 distfiles="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/releases/download/v${version}/kitty-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=16d843356b0697db2b71754b4afd8d43166a0f0561e606107f6a4b9519624e4f
+checksum=43596a1c5645fe476e96e748bb3b44afd680d84b4af409cd36b33de19b31933d
 patch_args="-Np1"
 python_version=3
 LDFLAGS+=" -Wl,-z,stack-size=2097152"