diff --git a/community/grpc/PKGBUILD b/community/grpc/PKGBUILD
index a875a80c7..11efbddc9 100644
--- a/community/grpc/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/grpc/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,69 +7,71 @@
 
 pkgbase='grpc'
 pkgname=('grpc' 'python-grpcio' 'php-grpc' 'php7-grpc' 'grpc-cli')
-pkgver=1.36.4
+pkgver=1.38.0
 _gtestver=c9ccac7cb7345901884aabf5d1a786cfa6e2f397
-_abseilcppver=20200923.2
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="High performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first."
 arch=('x86_64')
 url='https://grpc.io'
 license=('BSD')
 makedepends=('re2' 're2c' 'protobuf' 'php' 'php7' 'c-ares' 'openssl' 'chrpath' 'cython'
-             'cmake' 'benchmark' 'python-setuptools')
+             'cmake' 'benchmark' 'python-setuptools' 'abseil-cpp' 'ninja')
 source=("https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v$pkgver/$pkgbase-$pkgver.tar.gz"
         "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/$_gtestver/googletest-$_gtestver.tar.gz"
-        "https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/$_abseilcppver/abseil-cpp-$_abseilcppver.tar.gz"
-        parse_json-fix-status-error.patch
-        "atomic.patch")
-sha256sums=('8eb9d86649c4d4a7df790226df28f081b97a62bf12c5c5fe9b5d31a29cd6541a'
+        "python-grpcio-use-system-abseil.patch")
+sha256sums=('abd9e52c69000f2c051761cfa1f12d52d8b7647b6c66828a91d462e796f2aede'
             '443d383db648ebb8e391382c0ab63263b7091d03197f304390baac10f178a468'
-            'bf3f13b13a0095d926b25640e060f7e13881bd8a792705dd9e161f3c2b9aa976'
-            '6cb2101c74e0817a8037f7d5e0f0e251e5c6e87de41e286e0c930f50fe6485af'
-            '2f1285c8874cad70a7e1800f80b1673e8a1b7e2ff11f1f3e198063988cc5ab06')
+            'f8b9cf84e16ac66d9cb74c954362b037e69ae98a61d16fc1889ad15831bee588')
 
 prepare() {
   cd "$srcdir/$pkgbase-$pkgver"
 
-  # https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/25731
-  patch -Np1 -i ../parse_json-fix-status-error.patch
+  patch -Np1 -i ../python-grpcio-use-system-abseil.patch
 
   ln -sf "$srcdir/googletest-$_gtestver/"{googlemock,googletest} \
     third_party/googletest
 
-  rm -rf third_party/abseil-cpp
-  ln -s "$srcdir/abseil-cpp-$_abseilcppver/" third_party/abseil-cpp
-
-  mkdir build
-
   cp -a src/php{,7}
 
   if [[ $CARCH == "armv6h" || $CARCH == "arm" ]]; then
     sed -i -e "s/set(_gRPC_ALLTARGETS_LIBRARIES \${CMAKE_DL_LIBS} rt m pthread)/set(_gRPC_ALLTARGETS_LIBRARIES \${CMAKE_DL_LIBS} atomic rt m pthread)/g" CMakeLists.txt
-
-    cd "$srcdir/abseil-cpp-$_abseilcppver"
-    patch -p1 -i ../atomic.patch
   fi
-}
 
-build() {
-  cd "$srcdir/$pkgbase-$pkgver/build"
-  cmake \
+  cmake -Bbuild \
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \
     -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -DNDEBUG" \
     -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON \
     -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
-    -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=ON \
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
+    -DCMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH=ON \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-    -DgRPC_CARES_PROVIDER=package \
-    -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PROVIDER=package \
-    -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package \
-    -DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER=package \
-    -DgRPC_RE2_PROVIDER=package \
-    -DgRPC_BENCHMARK_PROVIDER=package \
-    ..
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_CODEGEN=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_CSHARP_EXT=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY_MODE=OFF \
+    -DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER='package' \
+    -DgRPC_CARES_PROVIDER='package' \
+    -DgRPC_RE2_PROVIDER='package' \
+    -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER='package' \
+    -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PROVIDER='package' \
+    -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PACKAGE_TYPE='MODULE' \
+    -DgRPC_BENCHMARK_PROVIDER:STRING='package' \
+    -DgRPC_ABSL_PROVIDER:STRING='package' \
+    -DgRPC_USE_PROTO_LITE=OFF \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_GRPC_CPP_PLUGIN=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_GRPC_CSHARP_PLUGIN=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_GRPC_NODE_PLUGIN=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_GRPC_OBJECTIVE_C_PLUGIN=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_GRPC_PHP_PLUGIN=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_GRPC_PYTHON_PLUGIN=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_GRPC_RUBY_PLUGIN=ON \
+    -GNinja
+}
 
-  make
+build() {
+  cd "$srcdir/$pkgbase-$pkgver/build"
+
+  cmake --build .
   export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$PWD"
 
   # PHP
@@ -91,12 +93,13 @@ build() {
   GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1 \
   GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_CARES=1 \
   GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_RE2=1 \
+  GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ABSL=1 \
   GRPC_BUILD_WITH_BORING_SSL_ASM=0 \
   python setup.py build
 }
 
 package_grpc() {
-  depends=('c-ares' 'protobuf' 'openssl' 're2')
+  depends=('c-ares' 'protobuf' 'openssl' 're2' 'abseil-cpp')
   provides=(
     'libupb.so'
     'libgrpcpp_channelz.so'
@@ -113,7 +116,7 @@ package_grpc() {
   )
 
   cd "$srcdir/$pkgbase-$pkgver/build"
-  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+  DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install .
   install -Dm644 ../LICENSE "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
 }
 
@@ -168,10 +171,6 @@ package_grpc-cli() {
   install -dm0755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
   cp -a build/libgrpc++_test_config.so* "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"
 
-  for solib in build/third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/flags/*.so; do
-    install -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib" "$solib"
-  done
-
   install -Dm0755 build/grpc_cli "$pkgdir/usr/bin/grpc_cli"
   install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
 }
diff --git a/community/grpc/atomic.patch b/community/grpc/atomic.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cbbe9ede..000000000
--- a/community/grpc/atomic.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/absl/base/CMakeLists.txt b/absl/base/CMakeLists.txt
-index 14c52ea..9f6f7d9 100644
---- a/absl/base/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/absl/base/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ absl_cc_library(
-     absl::core_headers
-   COPTS
-     ${ABSL_DEFAULT_COPTS}
-+  LINKOPTS
-+    "-latomic"
- )
- 
- absl_cc_library(
diff --git a/community/grpc/python-grpcio-use-system-abseil.patch b/community/grpc/python-grpcio-use-system-abseil.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fef50aa14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/grpc/python-grpcio-use-system-abseil.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+diff -Naur grpc-1.37.0-original/setup.py grpc-1.37.0/setup.py
+--- grpc-1.37.0-original/setup.py	2021-04-06 18:48:56.000000000 -0400
++++ grpc-1.37.0/setup.py	2021-04-08 15:34:35.182802019 -0400
+@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
+ from distutils import util
+ import os
+ import os.path
++import pathlib
+ import pkg_resources
+ import platform
+ import re
+@@ -154,6 +155,11 @@
+ # runtime, the shared library must be installed
+ BUILD_WITH_SYSTEM_RE2 = _env_bool_value('GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_RE2', 'False')
+ 
++# Export this variable to use the system installation of abseil. You need to
++# have the header files installed (in /usr/include/absl) and during
++# runtime, the shared library must be installed
++BUILD_WITH_SYSTEM_ABSL = os.environ.get('GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ABSL', False)
++
+ # Export this variable to force building the python extension with a statically linked libstdc++.
+ # At least on linux, this is normally not needed as we can build manylinux-compatible wheels on linux just fine
+ # without statically linking libstdc++ (which leads to a slight increase in the wheel size).
+@@ -296,6 +302,10 @@
+     CORE_C_FILES = filter(lambda x: 'third_party/re2' not in x, CORE_C_FILES)
+     RE2_INCLUDE = (os.path.join('/usr', 'include', 're2'),)
+ 
++if BUILD_WITH_SYSTEM_ABSL:
++    CORE_C_FILES = filter(lambda x: 'third_party/abseil-cpp' not in x, CORE_C_FILES)
++    ABSL_INCLUDE = (os.path.join('/usr', 'include'),)
++
+ EXTENSION_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES = ((PYTHON_STEM,) + CORE_INCLUDE + ABSL_INCLUDE +
+                                  ADDRESS_SORTING_INCLUDE + CARES_INCLUDE +
+                                  RE2_INCLUDE + SSL_INCLUDE + UPB_INCLUDE +
+@@ -325,6 +335,10 @@
+     EXTENSION_LIBRARIES += ('cares',)
+ if BUILD_WITH_SYSTEM_RE2:
+     EXTENSION_LIBRARIES += ('re2',)
++if BUILD_WITH_SYSTEM_ABSL:
++    EXTENSION_LIBRARIES += tuple(
++        lib.stem[3:] for lib in pathlib.Path('/usr').glob('lib*/libabsl_*.so')
++    )
+ 
+ DEFINE_MACROS = (('_WIN32_WINNT', 0x600),)
+ asm_files = []