diff --git a/app-shells/bash/bash-4.3.26.recipe b/app-shells/bash/bash-4.3.27.recipe
similarity index 58%
rename from app-shells/bash/bash-4.3.26.recipe
rename to app-shells/bash/bash-4.3.27.recipe
index 946ad8166..832e5eaaf 100644
--- a/app-shells/bash/bash-4.3.26.recipe
+++ b/app-shells/bash/bash-4.3.27.recipe
@@ -5,13 +5,16 @@ executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also \
 incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
 "
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/"
-SRC_URI="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="afc687a28e0e24dc21b988fa159ff9dbcf6b7caa92ade8645cc6d5605cd024d4"
+
+gitRev="3590145af6f1c9fa321dff231f69ae696e7e740b"
+SRC_URI="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-$gitRev.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_DIR="bash-$gitRev"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="ac6bf0f63c2264fa3c1c8cc550f1b545d836d57b91c199b8396d0c665f874730"
+
 PATCHES="bash-kill_by_name.patch"
-SOURCE_DIR="bash-4.3"
 REVISION="1"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
-COPYRIGHT="2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
+COPYRIGHT="2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
 
 PROVIDES="
@@ -34,23 +37,8 @@ BUILD_REQUIRES="
 	cmd:bison
 	cmd:make
 	cmd:awk
-	cmd:wget
-	cmd:patch
 	"
 
-PATCH()
-{
-	# Yes, this is nasty. But the GNU guys don't seem to want to ship
-	# patch releases, instead they want to ship patches. Hence this.
-	mkdir -p patches
-	for i in {001..026}; do
-		wget "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3-patches/bash43-$i" \
-			-O patches/bash43-$i.patch
-		patch -p0 <patches/bash43-$i.patch
-	done
-	rm -rf patches
-}
-
 BUILD()
 {
 	runConfigure ./configure --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline