diff --git a/desktop/polybar/README b/desktop/polybar/README
index 3807b0a3cd..3793085107 100644
--- a/desktop/polybar/README
+++ b/desktop/polybar/README
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ black belt in shell scripting.
 Optional dependencies for extended module support:
   * jsoncpp required by internal/i3
   * libmpdclient required by internal/mpd
+  * siji-font for additional font support
diff --git a/desktop/polybar/d35abc7620c8f06618b4708d9a969dfa2f309e96.patch b/desktop/polybar/d35abc7620c8f06618b4708d9a969dfa2f309e96.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f6722e775..0000000000
--- a/desktop/polybar/d35abc7620c8f06618b4708d9a969dfa2f309e96.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-From d35abc7620c8f06618b4708d9a969dfa2f309e96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: patrick96 <p.ziegler96@gmail.com>
-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:22:45 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Remove curlbuild include
-
-Curl removed that header in 73a2fcea0b4adea6ba342cd7ed1149782c214ae3
-([1])
-http.cpp doesn't use anything from that header and compilation works for
-fine with curl 7.54.1
-
-Fixes #647
-Ref:
-[1]: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/73a2fcea0b4adea6ba342cd7ed1149782c214ae3
----
- src/utils/http.cpp | 1 -
- 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/utils/http.cpp b/src/utils/http.cpp
-index 365dd3be..f6fe6779 100644
---- a/src/utils/http.cpp
-+++ b/src/utils/http.cpp
-@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
- #include <curl/curl.h>
--#include <curl/curlbuild.h>
- #include <curl/easy.h>
- #include <sstream>
- 
diff --git a/desktop/polybar/polybar.SlackBuild b/desktop/polybar/polybar.SlackBuild
index f6c01c2022..c2e6b4cb72 100644
--- a/desktop/polybar/polybar.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/polybar/polybar.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for polybar
 
-# Copyright 2017 Azure Zanculmarktum <zanculmarktum@gmail.com>
+# Copyright 2017-2018 Azure Zanculmarktum <zanculmarktum@gmail.com>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -23,14 +23,10 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=polybar
-VERSION=${VERSION:-3.0.5}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-3.1.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
-# Git modules
-MODULENAMS=(i3ipcpp xpp)
-MODULEVERSIONS=(0.6.2 1.3.6)
-
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
     i?86) ARCH=i586 ;;
@@ -67,19 +63,21 @@ rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 # Extract the Git modules to lib
-for i in $(seq 0 ${#MODULENAMS[@]}); do
-  [ $i -eq ${#MODULENAMS[@]} ] && break
-  rm -rf lib/${MODULENAMS[$i]}
-  tar xvf $CWD/${MODULENAMS[$i]}-${MODULEVERSIONS[$i]}.tar.gz
-  mv ${MODULENAMS[$i]}-${MODULEVERSIONS[$i]} lib/${MODULENAMS[$i]}
+for mod in i3ipcpp-0.7.0 xpp-1.4.0; do
+  rm -rf lib/${mod%-*}
+  tar xvf $CWD/$mod.tar.gz
+  mv $mod lib/${mod%-*}
 done
-patch -p1 < $CWD/d35abc7620c8f06618b4708d9a969dfa2f309e96.patch
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
- \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
-  -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
- \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
-  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
+   -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
+   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+
+# Fixes install location
+sed -i -e '/share\/doc\/polybar/s/share\///' doc/CMakeLists.txt
+sed -i -e '/share\/man\/man1/s/share\///' man/CMakeLists.txt
 
 mkdir -p build
 cd build
@@ -87,19 +85,16 @@ cd build
     -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
     -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-    -DLIB_SUFFIX=${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
-    -DMAN_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/man \
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
-  make
+  make -j1
   make install/strip DESTDIR=$PKG
 cd ..
 
-mv $PKG/usr/share/man $PKG/usr/man
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a LICENSE README.md $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a LICENSE README.md SUPPORT.md $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
diff --git a/desktop/polybar/polybar.info b/desktop/polybar/polybar.info
index 0f23e8019d..89b86cf3a6 100644
--- a/desktop/polybar/polybar.info
+++ b/desktop/polybar/polybar.info
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 PRGNAM="polybar"
-VERSION="3.0.5"
+VERSION="3.1.0"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/jaagr/polybar"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/archive/3.0.5/polybar-3.0.5.tar.gz \
-          https://github.com/jaagr/i3ipcpp/archive/v0.6.2/i3ipcpp-0.6.2.tar.gz \
-          https://github.com/jaagr/xpp/archive/1.3.6/xpp-1.3.6.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="bda4d0d34e394001dc502c8b38d89f48 \
-        b6300a0d4ca4b93d0b82f9402aab4fca \
-        fac190ed8862453164399137c0cdaa24"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/archive/3.1.0/polybar-3.1.0.tar.gz \
+          https://github.com/jaagr/i3ipcpp/archive/v0.7.0/i3ipcpp-0.7.0.tar.gz \
+          https://github.com/jaagr/xpp/archive/1.4.0/xpp-1.4.0.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="2c45bc25c0e7e9eee8af451fbd1e334f \
+        572b9f058bab2d19fcc3f44f4601b739 \
+        d1a7db82fb5737cc91f386d2bcbb1286"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="xcb-util-xrm"