diff --git a/extra/libass/build b/extra/libass/build
index b5818033..11938895 100755
--- a/extra/libass/build
+++ b/extra/libass/build
@@ -1,14 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
-patch -p1 < no-fribidi.patch
-
-sed -i 's/as_fn_error.*fribidi/: 0 "/'  configure
-sed -i '/pkg_requires="fribidi >= .*/d' configure
-
 ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr \
-    --enable-fontconfig \
-    --disable-harfbuzz
+    --enable-fontconfig
 
 make
 make DESTDIR="$1" install
diff --git a/extra/libass/checksums b/extra/libass/checksums
index ef94feee..9f340be8 100644
--- a/extra/libass/checksums
+++ b/extra/libass/checksums
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-881f2382af48aead75b7a0e02e65d88c5ebd369fe46bc77d9270a94aa8fd38a2  libass-0.14.0.tar.xz
-d2fc965cb68a80a0cec563a74fc05bccacbe0cd3e3f987ee2e6a9bac417491ab  no-fribidi.patch
+9f09230c9a0aa68ef7aa6a9e2ab709ca957020f842e52c5b2e52b801a7d9e833
diff --git a/extra/libass/depends b/extra/libass/depends
index 58efa52d..42209260 100644
--- a/extra/libass/depends
+++ b/extra/libass/depends
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 expat
 fontconfig
 freetype-harfbuzz
+fribidi
 nasm    make
 pkgconf make
diff --git a/extra/libass/patches/no-fribidi.patch b/extra/libass/patches/no-fribidi.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e00fcca6..00000000
--- a/extra/libass/patches/no-fribidi.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,186 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/libass/ass_shaper.c b/libass/ass_shaper.c
-index 657885b..d8c77ff 100644
---- a/libass/ass_shaper.c
-+++ b/libass/ass_shaper.c
-@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@ struct ass_shaper {
-
-     // FriBidi log2vis
-     int n_glyphs;
--    FriBidiChar *event_text;
--    FriBidiCharType *ctypes;
--    FriBidiLevel *emblevels;
-     FriBidiStrIndex *cmap;
-     FriBidiParType base_direction;
-
-@@ -80,8 +77,7 @@ struct ass_shaper_font_data {
-  */
- void ass_shaper_info(ASS_Library *lib)
- {
--    ass_msg(lib, MSGL_INFO, "Shaper: FriBidi "
--            FRIBIDI_VERSION " (SIMPLE)"
-+    ass_msg(lib, MSGL_INFO, "Shaper:"
- #ifdef CONFIG_HARFBUZZ
-             " HarfBuzz-ng %s (COMPLEX)", hb_version_string()
- #endif
-@@ -95,10 +91,7 @@ void ass_shaper_info(ASS_Library *lib)
- static bool check_allocations(ASS_Shaper *shaper, size_t new_size)
- {
-     if (new_size > shaper->n_glyphs) {
--        if (!ASS_REALLOC_ARRAY(shaper->event_text, new_size) ||
--            !ASS_REALLOC_ARRAY(shaper->ctypes, new_size) ||
--            !ASS_REALLOC_ARRAY(shaper->emblevels, new_size) ||
--            !ASS_REALLOC_ARRAY(shaper->cmap, new_size))
-+        if (!ASS_REALLOC_ARRAY(shaper->cmap, new_size))
-             return false;
-         shaper->n_glyphs = new_size;
-     }
-@@ -114,9 +107,6 @@ void ass_shaper_free(ASS_Shaper *shaper)
-     ass_cache_done(shaper->metrics_cache);
-     free(shaper->features);
- #endif
--    free(shaper->event_text);
--    free(shaper->ctypes);
--    free(shaper->emblevels);
-     free(shaper->cmap);
-     free(shaper);
- }
-@@ -688,33 +678,6 @@ void ass_shaper_determine_script(ASS_Shaper *shaper, GlyphInfo *glyphs,
- }
- #endif
-
--/**
-- * \brief Shape event text with FriBidi. Does mirroring and simple
-- * Arabic shaping.
-- * \param len number of clusters
-- */
--static void shape_fribidi(ASS_Shaper *shaper, GlyphInfo *glyphs, size_t len)
--{
--    int i;
--    FriBidiJoiningType *joins = calloc(sizeof(*joins), len);
--
--    // shape on codepoint level
--    fribidi_get_joining_types(shaper->event_text, len, joins);
--    fribidi_join_arabic(shaper->ctypes, len, shaper->emblevels, joins);
--    fribidi_shape(FRIBIDI_FLAGS_DEFAULT | FRIBIDI_FLAGS_ARABIC,
--            shaper->emblevels, len, joins, shaper->event_text);
--
--    // update indexes
--    for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
--        GlyphInfo *info = glyphs + i;
--        FT_Face face = info->font->faces[info->face_index];
--        info->symbol = shaper->event_text[i];
--        info->glyph_index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face, ass_font_index_magic(face, shaper->event_text[i]));
--    }
--
--    free(joins);
--}
--
- /**
-  * \brief Toggle kerning for HarfBuzz shaping.
-  * \param shaper shaper instance
-@@ -852,50 +815,7 @@ static void ass_shaper_skip_characters(TextInfo *text_info)
-  */
- int ass_shaper_shape(ASS_Shaper *shaper, TextInfo *text_info)
- {
--    int i, ret, last_break;
--    FriBidiParType dir;
--    GlyphInfo *glyphs = text_info->glyphs;
--
--    if (!check_allocations(shaper, text_info->length))
--        return -1;
--
--    // Get bidi character types and embedding levels
--    last_break = 0;
--    for (i = 0; i < text_info->length; i++) {
--        shaper->event_text[i] = glyphs[i].symbol;
--        // embedding levels should be calculated paragraph by paragraph
--        if (glyphs[i].symbol == '\n' || i == text_info->length - 1) {
--            dir = shaper->base_direction;
--            fribidi_get_bidi_types(shaper->event_text + last_break,
--                    i - last_break + 1, shaper->ctypes + last_break);
--            ret = fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(shaper->ctypes + last_break,
--                    i - last_break + 1, &dir, shaper->emblevels + last_break);
--            if (ret == 0)
--                return -1;
--            last_break = i + 1;
--        }
--    }
--
--    // add embedding levels to shape runs for final runs
--    for (i = 0; i < text_info->length; i++) {
--        glyphs[i].shape_run_id += shaper->emblevels[i];
--    }
--
--#ifdef CONFIG_HARFBUZZ
--    switch (shaper->shaping_level) {
--    case ASS_SHAPING_SIMPLE:
--        shape_fribidi(shaper, glyphs, text_info->length);
--        ass_shaper_skip_characters(text_info);
--        break;
--    case ASS_SHAPING_COMPLEX:
--        shape_harfbuzz(shaper, glyphs, text_info->length);
--        break;
--    }
--#else
--        shape_fribidi(shaper, glyphs, text_info->length);
--        ass_shaper_skip_characters(text_info);
--#endif
--
-+    check_allocations(shaper, text_info->length);
-     return 0;
- }
-
-@@ -909,7 +829,6 @@ ASS_Shaper *ass_shaper_new(size_t prealloc)
-     if (!shaper)
-         return NULL;
-
--    shaper->base_direction = FRIBIDI_PAR_ON;
-     if (!check_allocations(shaper, prealloc))
-         goto error;
-
-@@ -962,19 +881,6 @@ FriBidiStrIndex *ass_shaper_reorder(ASS_Shaper *shaper, TextInfo *text_info)
-     for (i = 0; i < text_info->length; i++)
-         shaper->cmap[i] = i;
-
--    // Create reorder map line-by-line
--    for (i = 0; i < text_info->n_lines; i++) {
--        LineInfo *line = text_info->lines + i;
--        FriBidiParType dir = FRIBIDI_PAR_ON;
--
--        ret = fribidi_reorder_line(0,
--                shaper->ctypes + line->offset, line->len, 0, dir,
--                shaper->emblevels + line->offset, NULL,
--                shaper->cmap + line->offset);
--        if (ret == 0)
--            return NULL;
--    }
--
-     return shaper->cmap;
- }
-
-@@ -987,10 +893,5 @@ FriBidiStrIndex *ass_shaper_reorder(ASS_Shaper *shaper, TextInfo *text_info)
-  */
- FriBidiParType resolve_base_direction(int enc)
- {
--    switch (enc) {
--        case -1:
--            return FRIBIDI_PAR_ON;
--        default:
--            return FRIBIDI_PAR_LTR;
--    }
-+    return 0;
- }
-diff --git a/libass/ass_shaper.h b/libass/ass_shaper.h
-index f6404fe..69a7ea9 100644
---- a/libass/ass_shaper.h
-+++ b/libass/ass_shaper.h
-@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
-
- typedef struct ass_shaper ASS_Shaper;
-
--#include <fribidi.h>
-+typedef int FriBidiParType;
-+typedef int FriBidiStrIndex;
- #include "ass_render.h"
-
- void ass_shaper_info(ASS_Library *lib);
diff --git a/extra/libass/sources b/extra/libass/sources
index 0fb023f9..609ed2fe 100644
--- a/extra/libass/sources
+++ b/extra/libass/sources
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-https://github.com/libass/libass/releases/download/0.14.0/libass-0.14.0.tar.xz
-patches/no-fribidi.patch
+https://github.com/libass/libass/releases/download/0.15.0/libass-0.15.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/extra/libass/version b/extra/libass/version
index 0f78dbcf..cd62e2ea 100644
--- a/extra/libass/version
+++ b/extra/libass/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.14.0 1
+0.15.0 1