diff --git a/aqt/updater.py b/aqt/updater.py
index 417f2bac..f33cd428 100644
--- a/aqt/updater.py
+++ b/aqt/updater.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Union
 
-import patch
+import patch_ng as patch
 
 from aqt.archives import TargetConfig
 from aqt.exceptions import UpdaterError
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 775a84fc..c519ecb1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "bs4",  # canonical name is beautifulsoup4
     "defusedxml",
     "humanize",
-    "patch>=1.16",
+    "patch-ng",
     "py7zr>=0.22.0",
     "requests>=2.31.0",
     "semantic-version",