diff --git a/ports/curl/build.sh b/ports/curl/build.sh
index a3edd808..549abbf5 100755
--- a/ports/curl/build.sh
+++ b/ports/curl/build.sh
@@ -1,21 +1,26 @@
 #!/bin/bash ../install.sh
 
 NAME='curl'
-VERSION='8.8.0'
-DOWNLOAD_URL="https://curl.se/download/curl-$VERSION.tar.gz#77c0e1cd35ab5b45b659645a93b46d660224d0024f1185e8a95cdb27ae3d787d"
-DEPENDENCIES=('ca-certificates' 'openssl' 'zlib')
+VERSION='8.11.1'
+DOWNLOAD_URL="https://curl.se/download/curl-$VERSION.tar.gz#a889ac9dbba3644271bd9d1302b5c22a088893719b72be3487bc3d401e5c4e80"
+DEPENDENCIES=('ca-certificates' 'openssl' 'zlib' 'zstd')
 CONFIGURE_OPTIONS=(
 	'--disable-threaded-resolver'
 	'--disable-ipv6'
 	'--disable-docs'
 	'--disable-ntlm'
+	'--enable-optimize'
 	'--with-openssl'
 	'--with-zlib'
+	'--with-zstd'
+	'--without-libpsl'
 	'--with-ca-bundle=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
 	'--without-ca-path'
 )
 
 install() {
 	make install DESTDIR="$BANAN_SYSROOT" || exit 1
+
+	# remove libtool file
 	rm -f $BANAN_SYSROOT/usr/lib/libcurl.la
 }
diff --git a/ports/curl/patches/0002-add-shared-library-support.patch b/ports/curl/patches/0002-add-shared-library-support.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..594665aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/curl/patches/0002-add-shared-library-support.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff -ruN curl-8.11.1/configure curl-8.11.1-banan_os/configure
+--- curl-8.11.1/configure	2024-12-11 09:08:12.000000000 +0200
++++ curl-8.11.1-banan_os/configure	2025-01-22 18:29:34.167111729 +0200
+@@ -15537,6 +15537,16 @@
+   esac
+   ;;
+ 
++banan_os*)
++  version_type=linux # correct to gnu/linux during the next big refactor
++  need_lib_prefix=no
++  need_version=no
++  library_names_spec='$libname$release$shared_ext$versuffix $libname$release$shared_ext$major $libname$shared_ext'
++  soname_spec='$libname$release$shared_ext$major'
++  dynamic_linker="$host_os DynamicLoader.so"
++  shlibpath_var=LD_LIBRARY_PATH
++  ;;
++
+ beos*)
+   library_names_spec='$libname$shared_ext'
+   dynamic_linker="$host_os ld.so"