diff --git a/multimedia/vapoursynth/vapoursynth.SlackBuild b/multimedia/vapoursynth/vapoursynth.SlackBuild
index 7dd9e848ac..1e8b6fd7a9 100644
--- a/multimedia/vapoursynth/vapoursynth.SlackBuild
+++ b/multimedia/vapoursynth/vapoursynth.SlackBuild
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=vapoursynth
-VERSION=${VERSION:-R69}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-R70}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ find -L . \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
 autoreconf -fi
+sed -z -i "s|PACKAGE_URL='http://www.vapoursynth.com/\n'|PACKAGE_URL='http://www.vapoursynth.com/'|" configure
 
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
diff --git a/multimedia/vapoursynth/vapoursynth.info b/multimedia/vapoursynth/vapoursynth.info
index 11fad2731b..da60f4bacd 100644
--- a/multimedia/vapoursynth/vapoursynth.info
+++ b/multimedia/vapoursynth/vapoursynth.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="vapoursynth"
-VERSION="R69"
+VERSION="R70"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.vapoursynth.com/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/vapoursynth/vapoursynth/archive/R69/vapoursynth-R69.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="87c61e60a1c3f23796121c635e472638"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/vapoursynth/vapoursynth/archive/R70/vapoursynth-R70.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="5065582c8bad742776ef490cfa2294f5"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="zimg"