diff --git a/packages/libnats-c/CMakeLists.txt.patch b/packages/libnats-c/CMakeLists.txt.patch
index 2c7eac4595..917075a4ec 100644
--- a/packages/libnats-c/CMakeLists.txt.patch
+++ b/packages/libnats-c/CMakeLists.txt.patch
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
    else(APPLE)
      set(NATS_OS "LINUX")
      set(NATS_USE_PTHREAD "-pthread")
--    set(NATS_EXTRA_LIB "rt")
+-    set(NATS_EXTRA_LIB "rt -lpthread")
    endif(APPLE)
    if (${NATS_BUILD_ARCH} MATCHES "32")
      if(NOT APPLE)
diff --git a/packages/libnats-c/build.sh b/packages/libnats-c/build.sh
index 0cccebe796..7995c30057 100644
--- a/packages/libnats-c/build.sh
+++ b/packages/libnats-c/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://nats-io.github.io/nats.c/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="A C client for the NATS messaging system"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="3.7.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="3.8.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/nats-io/nats.c/archive/refs/tags/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=6570e3c1be5d4d6040fd620d2318299e59045b7dc6c88d49c6168a3088d44ea2
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=465811380cdc6eab3304e40536d03f99977a69c0e56fcf566000c29dd075e4dd
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libprotobuf-c, openssl"