diff --git a/community/fwupd/PKGBUILD b/community/fwupd/PKGBUILD
index 7a8e334bc..f4bb21a0b 100644
--- a/community/fwupd/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/fwupd/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,15 +9,16 @@
 #  - meson with -Dplugin_tpm=false (tpm2-tss dependency)
 
 pkgname=fwupd
-pkgver=1.3.6
+pkgver=1.3.8
 pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc="A simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware"
+pkgdesc="Simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware"
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd"
 license=(LGPL)
 depends=(libxmlb python libgusb
          libsoup json-glib gcab libarchive gpgme
-         libgudev polkit shared-mime-info modemmanager)
+         libgudev polkit shared-mime-info)
+optdepends=('modemmanager: modem firmware upgrade support')
 makedepends=(meson gobject-introspection gtk-doc
              python-cairo noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk python-gobject vala
              bash-completion python-pillow help2man)
@@ -32,7 +33,8 @@ backup=('etc/fwupd/daemon.conf'
         'etc/fwupd/remotes.d/vendor.conf'
         'etc/fwupd/uefi.conf')
 source=("https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz"{,.asc})
-sha256sums=('8393c8471a0c797282d05e9dec292ffd39b2c1b775315af3915f66782d81d269' 'SKIP')
+sha256sums=('1d49f33fd18af6e0cef630092abe4b48253841915b18cd83f9c40e23c6e50b92'
+            'SKIP')
 validpgpkeys=(163EB50119225DB3DF8F49EA17ACBA8DFA970E17) # Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
 
 build() {