diff --git a/recipes/piawka/build.sh b/recipes/piawka/build.sh
index 036594907f2e1..a68b2482730b2 100644
--- a/recipes/piawka/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/piawka/build.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# increase verbosity for debugging
-set -x
-
 mkdir -p $PREFIX/bin
-
-# Replace `mawk -f` shebangs with "polyglot shebangs"
-# as per https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/361796/605705
-# not to rely on non-standard `env -S` option
-polyglot1='#!/bin/sh'; polyglot2='"exec" "mawk" "-f" "$0" "$@" && 0 {}'
-for f in $SRC_DIR/scripts/*; do 
-  t="$PREFIX/bin/$(basename $f)"
-  head -n 1 $f | grep awk && ( echo "$polyglot1" > $t && echo "$polyglot2" >> $t )
-  cat $f >> $t
-done
-
+cp $SRC_DIR/scripts/* $PREFIX/bin/ 
 chmod +x $PREFIX/bin/*
 
diff --git a/recipes/piawka/meta.yaml b/recipes/piawka/meta.yaml
index 46510a8351bc5..2d1b600650157 100644
--- a/recipes/piawka/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/piawka/meta.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {% set name = "piawka" %}
-{% set version = "0.7.10" %}
+{% set version = "0.8.1" %}
 
 package:
   name: {{ name|lower }}
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ package:
 
 source:
   url: https://github.com/novikovalab/{{ name }}/archive/refs/tags/{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: 511859b69525db7dc988ae55556e6fd31e2709f0e3a4de404f87abfadb97a273
+  sha256: c280b0669724410be64e9db6c61680d38ba89a263eb2d75efef1beb79d43a8c2
 
 build:
   noarch: generic
@@ -17,14 +17,13 @@ build:
 
 requirements:
   run:
-    - mawk =1.3.4
-    - parallel
+    - conda-forge::gawk >=5.0.0
     - bash
     - tabix
     
 test:
   commands:
-    - piawka_par.sh -h 
+    - piawka --help 
 
 about:
   home: https://github.com/novikovalab/piawka