diff --git a/programming/language/vala/actions.py b/programming/language/vala/actions.py
index 856debc335..eb00b72078 100644
--- a/programming/language/vala/actions.py
+++ b/programming/language/vala/actions.py
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
 # Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
 # See the file http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
 
+from pisi.actionsapi import shelltools
 from pisi.actionsapi import autotools
 from pisi.actionsapi import pisitools
 from pisi.actionsapi import get
 
 def setup():
+    shelltools.system("sed -i '115d; 121,137d; 139,140d'  configure.ac")
+    shelltools.system("sed -i '/valadoc/d' Makefile.am")
     autotools.autoreconf("-vfi")
     autotools.configure("--enable-vapigen \
                          --with-pic")
diff --git a/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml b/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml
index c8f3ad8cbc..f80df5b647 100644
--- a/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/vala/pspec.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         <License>BSD</License>
         <Summary>A modern programming language for GNOME</Summary>
         <Description>Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="a12af2da2b773a5f80417eec98f068f54d77a3be" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnome/vala/0.36/vala-0.36.9.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="a972a4294d2c76e820db4cda56d716290d8c61ec" type="tarxz">mirrors://gnome/vala/0.40/vala-0.40.3.tar.xz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>glib2-devel</Dependency>
 	    <Dependency>gobject-introspection-devel</Dependency>
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
             <Path fileType="doc">/usr/share/doc</Path>
             <Path fileType="man">/usr/share/man</Path>
             <Path fileType="data">/usr/share/vala-*/vapi</Path>
+            <Path fileType="data">/usr/share/vala/vapi/libvala-0.40.vapi</Path>
             <Path fileType="data">/usr/share/vim/vimfiles</Path>
         </Files>
         <AdditionalFiles>
@@ -69,6 +70,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="6">
+            <Date>2018-07-30</Date>
+            <Version>0.40.3</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Mustafa Cinasal</Name>
+            <Email>muscnsl@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="5">
             <Date>2018-07-29</Date>
             <Version>0.36.9</Version>