diff --git a/comms/direwolf/Makefile b/comms/direwolf/Makefile
--- a/comms/direwolf/Makefile
+++ b/comms/direwolf/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	direwolf
-DISTVERSION=	1.8
+DISTVERSION=	1.8.1
 CATEGORIES=	comms hamradio
 
 MAINTAINER=	hamradio@FreeBSD.org
diff --git a/comms/direwolf/distinfo b/comms/direwolf/distinfo
--- a/comms/direwolf/distinfo
+++ b/comms/direwolf/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1761963033
-SHA256 (wb2osz-direwolf-1.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 20af50f397ce492a1e42889a1e2eba54581334c0754adae8e196433998a44e3a
-SIZE (wb2osz-direwolf-1.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 20000274
+TIMESTAMP = 1766090043
+SHA256 (wb2osz-direwolf-1.8.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 89d5f7992ae1e74d8cf26ec6479dde74d1f480bde950043756e875a689d065d7
+SIZE (wb2osz-direwolf-1.8.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 20000479