diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf/env.patch b/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf/env.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d073e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf/env.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+'scons' cleans the environment which breaks ccache builds because
+CCACHEDIR can point to an unexpected location:
+
+| ccache arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc ... context.c
+| ccache: failed to create .../serf/1.3.6-r0/.home/.ccache (No such file or directory)
+
+Issue is described in
+
+  http://www.scons.org/wiki/ImportingEnvironmentSettings
+
+and because 'bitbake' cleans environment we can pass it completely
+instead of trying to enumerate needed env.
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
+
+
+Index: serf-1.3.6/SConstruct
+===================================================================
+--- serf-1.3.6.orig/SConstruct
++++ serf-1.3.6/SConstruct
+@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ if sys.platform == 'win32':
+ env = Environment(variables=opts,
+                   tools=('default', 'textfile',),
+                   CPPPATH=['.', ],
++                  ENV = os.environ,
+                   )
+
+ env.Append(BUILDERS = {
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf/norpath.patch b/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf/norpath.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..380f5d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf/norpath.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+The RPATH handling in serf is all wrong for us and we don't need it 
+anyway so hack around it by removing this for now.
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
+
+RP 2014/7/17
+
+Index: serf-1.3.6/SConstruct
+===================================================================
+--- serf-1.3.6.orig/SConstruct	2014-07-17 19:57:57.724389150 +0000
++++ serf-1.3.6/SConstruct	2014-07-17 20:04:21.784399616 +0000
+@@ -218,8 +218,7 @@
+ else:
+   LIBNAMESTATIC = 'serf-${MAJOR}'
+ 
+-env.Append(RPATH=libdir,
+-           PDB='${TARGET.filebase}.pdb')
++env.Append(PDB='${TARGET.filebase}.pdb')
+ 
+ #for i in env:
+ #    print(str(env[i]))
+@@ -371,12 +370,6 @@
+ if sys.platform == 'win32':
+   env.Append(CPPDEFINES=['SERF_HAVE_SSPI'])
+ 
+-# On some systems, the -R values that APR describes never make it into actual
+-# RPATH flags. We'll manually map all directories in LIBPATH into new
+-# flags to set RPATH values.
+-for d in env['LIBPATH']:
+-  env.Append(RPATH=':'+d)
+-
+ # Set up the construction of serf-*.pc
+ pkgconfig = env.Textfile('serf-%d.pc' % (MAJOR,),
+                          env.File('build/serf.pc.in'),
+@@ -446,7 +439,6 @@
+                           ENV={'PATH' : os.environ['PATH']}))
+ 
+ # Find the (dynamic) library in this directory
+-tenv.Replace(RPATH=thisdir)
+ tenv.Prepend(LIBS=[LIBNAMESTATIC, ],
+              LIBPATH=[thisdir, ])
+ 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf_1.3.8.bb b/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf_1.3.8.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5059d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/serf/serf_1.3.8.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+SUMMARY = "High-Performance Asynchronous HTTP Client Library"
+SRC_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/s/${BPN}/${BPN}_${PV}.orig.tar.gz \
+           file://norpath.patch \
+           file://env.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "713beaf05d7f3329de121e218e2fcb93"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "77134cd5010664ca023585bce50978bd4005906ed280ff889f591f86df7c59e4"
+
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=86d3f3a95c324c9479bd8986968f4327"
+
+DEPENDS = "python-scons-native openssl apr apr-util util-linux expat"
+
+do_compile() {
+	${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/scons ${PARALLEL_MAKE} PREFIX=${prefix} \
+		CC="${CC}" \
+		APR=`which apr-1-config` APU=`which apu-1-config` \
+		CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" LINKFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" \
+		OPENSSL="${STAGING_EXECPREFIXDIR}"
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/scons PREFIX=${D}${prefix} LIBDIR=${D}${libdir} install
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"