diff --git a/community/boinc/PKGBUILD b/community/boinc/PKGBUILD
index 7599ac7b9..26b52e967 100644
--- a/community/boinc/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/boinc/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 
 pkgbase=boinc
 pkgname=(boinc boinc-nox)
-pkgver=7.8.6
-_tag="client_release/7.8/$pkgver"
+pkgver=7.10.3
+_tag="client_release/7/$pkgver"
 pkgrel=1
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/"
@@ -20,25 +20,18 @@ makedepends=('curl' 'freeglut' 'glu' 'inetutils' 'libnotify' 'libnsl' 'libxmu' '
 install=$pkgbase.install
 options=('!staticlibs')
 source=("$pkgbase-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/archive/$_tag.tar.gz"
-        https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/commit/e86f29e7fbc78faff6c9b9c8356ffe59049c116f.patch
         boinc.bash
         boinc.desktop
-        boinc.service
         boinc.sysusers)
-sha512sums=('e565fff30bc7214ae48548ae726544be3c8b09455a8c78a9e30410fd6cffe3b04b2e5c7f54381fa4190aa8adb259243b7d6443b6760c038ed8347edfed1ba997'
-            '565ac560d4ea1c82f238153c47d076d63eb2d839cba10de9fb7c86c8b89b9994f807347a564c3e05d75231019e259c3afc399b203eb0bd83ac2572db54c4e56f'
+sha512sums=('06232f4cfa95d2769ee2a3b624883b7e695b3e0b4ef249802510c1a131858c675971ca3750b7b9842c66709c1f2e21325e5b788d683d0ea598cf6a37f9fa023e'
             'dec4bb6e571c2d99e1f57295149399eee03a8ec41b07ec3f7f197b910d246dcd6a5eb880301c9cd3a039d8c5aa6b07babf6ab4cae5f242c419c8cd71f56b90f5'
             'b3fcd703a6f683d246242543c2f7b5fcfe403cb95b7786f1418b24c3dfb7c54c6b8c4816c0e9ae56b5ee4e4cae63f153ec522b04bf02f4f835dd90ac0e0ae204'
-            '395343369cc02da33a0d61bdc45fd8812f4f881a2efbb684b07f8d727d1896ef558c875d42e93e7743004e1efe6226361b53c0ea1cb1e8323ec605caa833774e'
             '85804d7e6b7e07f06e93e8c42507f5cd0b9415257d6ac7421603a2b6084699d847ae9720c1cf9e9793b750dfb768375116843b988b287ee7c66c1374e18f7934')
 
 prepare() {
   mv boinc-client_release-*-$pkgver $pkgbase-$pkgver
 
   cd $pkgbase-$pkgver
-  # https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/2092
-  patch -p1 -i ../e86f29e7fbc78faff6c9b9c8356ffe59049c116f.patch
-
   cp -r "$srcdir"/$pkgbase-$pkgver{,-nox}
 
   ./_autosetup
@@ -60,6 +53,7 @@ build() {
   cd "$srcdir"/$pkgbase-$pkgver
   LDFLAGS='-lX11' ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr \
+    --sysconfdir=/etc \
     --enable-libraries \
     --enable-unicode \
     --enable-shared \
@@ -79,6 +73,7 @@ build() {
   cd "$srcdir"/$pkgbase-$pkgver-nox
   PKG_CONFIG=/usr/bin/pkg-config ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr \
+    --sysconfdir=/etc \
     --enable-libraries \
     --enable-unicode \
     --enable-shared \
@@ -102,9 +97,6 @@ package_boinc() {
 
   make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
 
-  #install systemd unit
-  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/$pkgbase.service" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/$pkgbase.service"
-
   #install sysusers conf
   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/$pkgbase.sysusers" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/$pkgbase.conf"
 
@@ -131,9 +123,6 @@ package_boinc-nox() {
 
   make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
 
-  #install systemd unit
-  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/$pkgbase.service" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/$pkgbase.service"
-
   #install sysusers conf
   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/$pkgbase.sysusers" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/$pkgbase.conf"
 
diff --git a/community/boinc/boinc.install b/community/boinc/boinc.install
index da9a28674..1ef04493a 100644
--- a/community/boinc/boinc.install
+++ b/community/boinc/boinc.install
@@ -6,3 +6,10 @@ post_install() {
   mkdir -p var/lib/boinc
   chown -R boinc:boinc var/lib/boinc
 }
+
+post_upgrade() {
+  if (( $(vercmp $2 7.10.3) < 0)); then
+    echo "Since 7.10.3, upstream provided boinc-client.service is used instead of our own one."
+    echo "Please enable/start the new boinc-client.service if desired."
+  fi
+}
diff --git a/community/boinc/boinc.service b/community/boinc/boinc.service
deleted file mode 100644
index 12634ff5a..000000000
--- a/community/boinc/boinc.service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=BOINC Daemon
-
-[Service]
-User=boinc
-Nice=19
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/boinc_client --dir /var/lib/boinc --redirectio
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target