diff --git a/manifest/armv7l/c/colordiff.filelist b/manifest/armv7l/c/colordiff.filelist
index dff96caef3..a60fb45208 100644
--- a/manifest/armv7l/c/colordiff.filelist
+++ b/manifest/armv7l/c/colordiff.filelist
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Total size: 24273
+# Total size: 28504
 /home/chronos/user/.colordiffrc
 /usr/local/bin/cdiff
 /usr/local/bin/colordiff
 /usr/local/etc/colordiffrc
-/usr/local/man/man1/cdiff.1.gz
-/usr/local/man/man1/colordiff.1.gz
+/usr/local/share/man/man1/cdiff.1.zst
+/usr/local/share/man/man1/colordiff.1.zst
diff --git a/manifest/i686/c/colordiff.filelist b/manifest/i686/c/colordiff.filelist
index dff96caef3..a60fb45208 100644
--- a/manifest/i686/c/colordiff.filelist
+++ b/manifest/i686/c/colordiff.filelist
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Total size: 24273
+# Total size: 28504
 /home/chronos/user/.colordiffrc
 /usr/local/bin/cdiff
 /usr/local/bin/colordiff
 /usr/local/etc/colordiffrc
-/usr/local/man/man1/cdiff.1.gz
-/usr/local/man/man1/colordiff.1.gz
+/usr/local/share/man/man1/cdiff.1.zst
+/usr/local/share/man/man1/colordiff.1.zst
diff --git a/manifest/x86_64/c/colordiff.filelist b/manifest/x86_64/c/colordiff.filelist
index dff96caef3..a60fb45208 100644
--- a/manifest/x86_64/c/colordiff.filelist
+++ b/manifest/x86_64/c/colordiff.filelist
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Total size: 24273
+# Total size: 28504
 /home/chronos/user/.colordiffrc
 /usr/local/bin/cdiff
 /usr/local/bin/colordiff
 /usr/local/etc/colordiffrc
-/usr/local/man/man1/cdiff.1.gz
-/usr/local/man/man1/colordiff.1.gz
+/usr/local/share/man/man1/cdiff.1.zst
+/usr/local/share/man/man1/colordiff.1.zst
diff --git a/packages/colordiff.rb b/packages/colordiff.rb
index 7e4142ecc9..f9abdaa8d9 100644
--- a/packages/colordiff.rb
+++ b/packages/colordiff.rb
@@ -3,33 +3,28 @@ require 'package'
 class Colordiff < Package
   description "The Perl script colordiff is a wrapper for 'diff' and produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting."
   homepage 'https://www.colordiff.org/'
-  version '1.0.18'
+  version '1.0.22'
   license 'GPL-2'
   compatibility 'all'
-  source_url 'https://www.colordiff.org/colordiff-1.0.18.tar.gz'
-  source_sha256 '29cfecd8854d6e19c96182ee13706b84622d7b256077df19fbd6a5452c30d6e0'
-  binary_compression 'tar.xz'
+  source_url "https://www.colordiff.org/colordiff-#{version}.tar.gz"
+  source_sha256 'f96f73c54521c53f14dc164d5a3920c9ca21a0e5f8e9613f43812a98af3e22af'
 
-  binary_sha256({
-    aarch64: 'f8e3848078a822375729d5243697ed856e45db41badef0db95052dac3beac452',
-     armv7l: 'f8e3848078a822375729d5243697ed856e45db41badef0db95052dac3beac452',
-       i686: 'f47a74e3d39e7b72989925434897313ca1a98c11e6895c30c1db7f23049ac166',
-     x86_64: 'd0cafc057a6967a0232ec57769a9b013e1e4cc8412b3b0ece257cc622f2a3234'
-  })
+  depends_on 'perl' => :executable
 
-  depends_on 'perl'
+  no_compile_needed
 
-  def self.install
+  def self.patch
     system "sed -i 's,/etc,#{CREW_PREFIX}/etc,g' colordiff.pl"
     system "sed -i 's,/usr/bin/perl,#{CREW_PREFIX}/bin/perl,' colordiff.pl"
-    system "install -Dm755 colordiff.pl #{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/bin/colordiff"
-    system "install -Dm755 cdiff.sh #{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/bin/cdiff"
-    system 'gzip -9 cdiff.1 colordiff.1'
-    system "install -Dm644 cdiff.1.gz #{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/man/man1/cdiff.1.gz"
-    system "install -Dm644 colordiff.1.gz #{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/man/man1/colordiff.1.gz"
-    system "install -Dm644 colordiffrc #{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/etc/colordiffrc"
-    system "mkdir -p #{CREW_DEST_DIR}/$HOME"
-    system "ln -s #{CREW_PREFIX}/etc/colordiffrc #{CREW_DEST_DIR}/$HOME/.colordiffrc"
-    system "ln -sf #{CREW_PREFIX}/etc/colordiffrc $HOME/.colordiffrc"
+  end
+
+  def self.install
+    FileUtils.install 'cdiff.sh', "#{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/bin/cdiff", mode: 0o755
+    FileUtils.install 'colordiff.pl', "#{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/bin/colordiff", mode: 0o755
+    FileUtils.install 'colordiffrc', "#{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/etc/colordiffrc", mode: 0o644
+    FileUtils.install 'cdiff.1', "#{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/man/man1/cdiff.1", mode: 0o644
+    FileUtils.install 'colordiff.1', "#{CREW_DEST_PREFIX}/man/man1/colordiff.1", mode: 0o644
+    FileUtils.mkdir_p CREW_DEST_HOME
+    FileUtils.ln_s "#{CREW_PREFIX}/etc/colordiffrc", "#{CREW_DEST_HOME}/.colordiffrc"
   end
 end
diff --git a/tests/package/c/colordiff b/tests/package/c/colordiff
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..1efbaedc3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/package/c/colordiff
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+cdiff --help | head
+cdiff --version
+colordiff --help
+colordiff --version
diff --git a/tools/automatically_updatable_packages/colordiff b/tools/automatically_updatable_packages/colordiff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2