diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity/0001-drop-zenity-detection.patch b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity/0001-drop-zenity-detection.patch
index 3493e511be9..315d4e4366d 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity/0001-drop-zenity-detection.patch
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity/0001-drop-zenity-detection.patch
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 5f9e7e9..80b32c7 100644
+index 528b7d2..8932ae6 100644
 --- a/configure.ac
 +++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -359,11 +359,6 @@ fi
+@@ -337,11 +337,6 @@ fi
  
  AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_SM, test "$found_sm" = "yes") 
  
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ index 5f9e7e9..80b32c7 100644
 -  AC_MSG_ERROR([zenity not found in your path - needed for dialogs])
 -fi
 -
- dnl **************************************************************************
- dnl Check for Vulkan support
- dnl **************************************************************************
+ AC_SEARCH_LIBS([dlsym], [dl], [], [
+   AC_MSG_ERROR([unable to find the dlsym() function])
+ ])
 -- 
-1.8.3.1
+2.31.1
 
diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity/0001-fix-build-with-disable-dependency-tracking.patch b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity/0001-fix-build-with-disable-dependency-tracking.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 864d0baa2a8..00000000000
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity/0001-fix-build-with-disable-dependency-tracking.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-From 632670273cc880917e78a152a3ae39e209b57864 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Zolt=C3=A1n=20B=C3=B6sz=C3=B6rm=C3=A9nyi?=
- <zboszor@gmail.com>
-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:58:25 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] fix build with --disable-dependency-tracking
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-With split build and source directories AND --disable-dependency-tracking
-(like the way Yocto builds are done) there's a reproducible make
-failure on my Fedora 33 build host:
-
-| Making all in src
-| make[2]: Entering directory '.../metacity/1_3.40.0-r0/build/src'
-| .../metacity/1_3.40.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/glib-mkenums --template ../../metacity-3.40.0/src/core/meta-enum-types.c.in ../../metacity-3.40.0/src/core/window-private.h ../../metacity-3.40.0/src/include/meta-compositor.h  > \
-| 	meta-enum-types.c.tmp && mv meta-enum-types.c.tmp core/meta-enum-types.c
-| .../metacity/1_3.40.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/glib-mkenums --template ../../metacity-3.40.0/src/core/meta-enum-types.h.in ../../metacity-3.40.0/src/core/window-private.h ../../metacity-3.40.0/src/include/meta-compositor.h  > \
-| 	meta-enum-types.h.tmp && mv meta-enum-types.h.tmp core/meta-enum-types.h
-| mv: cannot move 'meta-enum-types.c.tmp' to 'core/meta-enum-types.c'mv: cannot move 'meta-enum-types.h.tmp' to 'core/meta-enum-types.h': No such file or directory
-| : No such file or directory
-| make[2]: *** [Makefile:2240: core/meta-enum-types.c] Error 1
-
-https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/-/merge_requests/24
-
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
-Signed-off-by: Zoltán Böszörményi <zboszor@gmail.com>
----
- configure.ac    | 1 +
- src/Makefile.am | 2 ++
- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index ebb00b85..04aafb94 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ dnl **************************************************************************
- AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, "\${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}")
- 
- AC_PROG_CC
-+AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
- AC_ISC_POSIX
- AC_HEADER_STDC
- 
-diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
-index f86af600..4aa3fdae 100644
---- a/src/Makefile.am
-+++ b/src/Makefile.am
-@@ -204,10 +204,12 @@ ENUM_TYPES = \
- 	$(NULL)
- 
- core/meta-enum-types.c: core/meta-enum-types.c.in $(ENUM_TYPES) Makefile.am
-+	$(MKDIR_P) core
- 	$(AM_V_GEN) $(GLIB_MKENUMS) --template $(srcdir)/core/meta-enum-types.c.in $(ENUM_TYPES) > \
- 		meta-enum-types.c.tmp && mv meta-enum-types.c.tmp core/meta-enum-types.c
- 
- core/meta-enum-types.h: core/meta-enum-types.h.in $(ENUM_TYPES) Makefile.am
-+	$(MKDIR_P) core
- 	$(AM_V_GEN) $(GLIB_MKENUMS) --template $(srcdir)/core/meta-enum-types.h.in $(ENUM_TYPES) > \
- 		meta-enum-types.h.tmp && mv meta-enum-types.h.tmp core/meta-enum-types.h
- 
--- 
-2.31.1
-
diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity_3.40.0.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity_3.42.0.bb
similarity index 81%
rename from meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity_3.40.0.bb
rename to meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity_3.42.0.bb
index e7570ec5970..58479cf7b3c 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity_3.40.0.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/metacity/metacity_3.42.0.bb
@@ -23,11 +23,8 @@ REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
 
 inherit gnomebase gsettings gettext upstream-version-is-even features_check
 
-SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "224c1f65487eac21f0c1d9856152343768ee726c48b1a8a2835a46a8ad9015b5"
-SRC_URI += " \
-    file://0001-drop-zenity-detection.patch \
-    file://0001-fix-build-with-disable-dependency-tracking.patch \
-"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "d89d679dcfed9b5eef18f06e2dcb33a7ab543d53b358fa89ce65593c231eeebc"
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-drop-zenity-detection.patch"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG[xinerama] = "--enable-xinerama,--disable-xinerama,libxinerama"
 # enable as neccessary until new warnings are dealt with