diff --git a/editors/jove/Makefile b/editors/jove/Makefile
index 1bb40076a55e..11942e52cee4 100644
--- a/editors/jove/Makefile
+++ b/editors/jove/Makefile
@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	jove
-DISTVERSION=	4.17.5.3
+DISTVERSION=	4.17.5.5
 CATEGORIES=	editors
 
 MAINTAINER=	nc@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
 WWW=		https://github.com/jonmacs/jove
 
 LICENSE=	BSD0CLAUSE
 
 USES=		groff ncurses
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	jonmacs
 
 pre-patch:
 	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,/usr/local/,${PREFIX}/,' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile
+	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,/etc/,${PREFIX}/etc/,' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile
 
 post-install:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/var/lib/jove/tmp
+	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/jove
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/editors/jove/distinfo b/editors/jove/distinfo
index 23942e351e29..f529cce3eec7 100644
--- a/editors/jove/distinfo
+++ b/editors/jove/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1717641168
-SHA256 (jonmacs-jove-4.17.5.3_GH0.tar.gz) = ca5a5fcf71009c7389d655d1f1ae8139710f6cc531be95581e4b375e67f098d2
-SIZE (jonmacs-jove-4.17.5.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 548835
+TIMESTAMP = 1755646484
+SHA256 (jonmacs-jove-4.17.5.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 4261d7cab02816eb03f3f356a0a2869d7f6168fce53478ede8e5fdd06a9ecfb9
+SIZE (jonmacs-jove-4.17.5.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 551600
diff --git a/editors/jove/pkg-plist b/editors/jove/pkg-plist
index 5e940b612a82..1cdcf910b12d 100644
--- a/editors/jove/pkg-plist
+++ b/editors/jove/pkg-plist
@@ -1,35 +1,36 @@
 bin/jove
 bin/teachjove
 lib/jove/recover
 man/man1/jove.1
 man/man1/teachjove.1
 %%DOCSDIR%%/example.rc
 %%DOCSDIR%%/jove.man.pdf
 %%DOCSDIR%%/jove.man.txt
 %%DOCSDIR%%/jove.qref
 %%DATADIR%%/XTermresource
 %%DATADIR%%/cmds.txt
 %%DATADIR%%/jem.txt
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc.3022
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc.sun
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc.sun-cmd
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc.vt100
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc.wyse
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc.xterm
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc.xterm-256color
 %%DATADIR%%/jove.rc.z29
 %%DATADIR%%/keychart.3022
 %%DATADIR%%/keychart.sun
 %%DATADIR%%/keychart.sun-cmd
 %%DATADIR%%/keychart.vt100
 %%DATADIR%%/keychart.wyse
 %%DATADIR%%/keychart.xterm
 %%DATADIR%%/keychart.xterm-256color
 %%DATADIR%%/keychart.z29
 %%DATADIR%%/teach-jove
 @mode 777
 @dir /var/lib/jove/tmp
 @dir /var/lib/jove/preserve
 @dir /var/lib/jove
 @dir /var/lib
+@dir etc/jove