diff --git a/office/evince/README b/office/evince/README
index 84a5ce2807..80a6ec3cf4 100644
--- a/office/evince/README
+++ b/office/evince/README
@@ -13,11 +13,3 @@ Evince is specifically designed to support the following file formats:
 * CBR/CBZ (comic books)
 * DVI
 * XPS (requires optional dependency libgxps)
-
-This uses dconf (runtime-only) to save various settings (and even 
-then, not ALL settings are saved).
-
-Note: this is the last version I could get to compile and run on Slackware
-14.2. Newer versions of evince require newer glib2 and gtk+3 libraries
-than 14.2 provides, so please don't email me asking for updates (you'll
-have to wait until Slackware 15.0 is released).
diff --git a/office/evince/evince.SlackBuild b/office/evince/evince.SlackBuild
index db10141d89..2bf4182aa0 100644
--- a/office/evince/evince.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/evince/evince.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for evince
 
-# Copyright 2009  Andrew Brouwers <abrouwers@gmail.com>
+# Copyright 2009  Andrew Brouwers <email removed>
 # Copyright 2009-2014, Michiel van Wessem, Manchester, United Kingdom.
 # Copyright 2019, B. Watson
 # All rights reserved.
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 
 # Now maintained by B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
 
+# 20210730 bkw: update for v40.4 and slackware-current. Add libhandy dep.
 # 20191231 bkw:
 # - take over maintenance
 # - update for v3.28.5.3, which is the last version that will build with
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=evince
-VERSION=${VERSION:-3.34.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-40.4}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -86,54 +87,40 @@ chown -R root:root .
 find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
         \! -perm /111 -a \! -perm 644 -a -exec chmod 644 {} \+
 
-# If we have any patches apply them here:
-#  http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-text/evince/files/
-
-# 20191231 bkw: I'll leave this here, but I have NOT tested it.
-# It was never documented in README, caveat hactor.
-NLS=${NLS:-YES}
-if [ "$NLS" != "YES" ]; then
-    # disable NLS - we're going for a small package here.
-    rm po/*.po
-    sed -i -e 's/USE_NLS=yes/USE_NLS=no/g' \
-      -e 's/ENABLE_NLS 1/ENABLE_NLS 0/g' configure
-fi
-
-CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-./configure \
-  --prefix=/usr \
-  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
-  --mandir=/usr/man \
-  --sysconfdir=/etc \
-  --localstatedir=/var \
-  --mandir=/usr/man \
-  --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
-  --enable-dbus \
-  --enable-pdf \
-  --enable-tiff \
-  --enable-djvu \
-  --enable-t1lib \
-  --enable-comics \
-  --enable-dvi \
-  --enable-ps \
-  --enable-xps \
-  --enable-introspection \
-  --disable-static \
-  --disable-nautilus \
-  --disable-maintainer-mode \
-  --without-gspell \
-  --with-systemduserunitdir=no \
-  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
-
-make V=1
-make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG
+mkdir build
+cd build
+  CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  meson .. \
+    --buildtype=release \
+    --infodir=/usr/info \
+    --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+    --localstatedir=/var \
+    --mandir=/usr/man \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --sysconfdir=/etc \
+    -Dstrip=true \
+    -Ddbus=${DBUS:-true} \
+    -Dcomics=enabled \
+    -Ddjvu=enabled \
+    -Ddvi=enabled \
+    -Dt1lib=enabled \
+    -Dpdf=enabled \
+    -Dps=enabled \
+    -Dtiff=enabled \
+    -Dnautilus=false \
+    -Dgspell=disabled \
+    -Dsystemduserunitdir=no
+  "${NINJA:=ninja}"
+  DESTDIR=$PKG $NINJA install
+cd ..
+rm -f $PKG/{,usr/}lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/*.la
 
 gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.1
 
-rm -rf $PKG/{usr/share/gtk-doc,etc}
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README.md MAINTAINERS $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a AUTHORS COPYING NEWS *.md MAINTAINERS NEWS NOTES TODO \
+      $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
diff --git a/office/evince/evince.info b/office/evince/evince.info
index a5814eea74..a8e1e5806d 100644
--- a/office/evince/evince.info
+++ b/office/evince/evince.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="evince"
-VERSION="3.34.2"
+VERSION="40.4"
 HOMEPAGE="http://projects.gnome.org/evince/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/3.34/evince-3.34.2.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="9e9e82fa8f6045ad7817157d9335d185"
+DOWNLOAD="https://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/40/evince-40.4.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="bf78a8e8c384bbd2780b7be0ac917e79"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES=""
+REQUIRES="libhandy"
 MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
 EMAIL="yalhcru@gmail.com"