diff --git a/devel/ispc/Makefile b/devel/ispc/Makefile
index ffd665af9dca..00b0b716254b 100644
--- a/devel/ispc/Makefile
+++ b/devel/ispc/Makefile
@@ -1,54 +1,53 @@
 # Created by: Yuri Victorovich <yuri@rawbw.com>
 
 PORTNAME=	ispc
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.15.0
-PORTREVISION=	2
+DISTVERSION=	1.16.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Intel's compiler for high-performance SIMD programming
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=		aarch64 amd64 i386
 ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON=	only available for these architectures
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/bin/flex:textproc/flex \
 		m4:devel/m4
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libLLVM.so:devel/llvm${LLVM_VERSION}
 
 USES=		bison cmake compiler:c++14-lang python:build,test shebangfix
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 SHEBANG_FILES=	*.py
 
 #LLVM_VERSION=	-devel # fails with 12: call to non-static member function without an object argument: llvm::DebugLoc::get
 		# Release notes https://github.com/ispc/ispc/blob/master/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt list compatible LLVM versions, but they assume that extra patches are applied to LLVM
 		# LLVM build script: https://github.com/ispc/ispc/blob/master/scripts/build.sh
 LLVM_VERSION=	11 # it fails with -devel (13.0.d20210308), with 12.0.0.r2 it also fails, using 11 that it succeeds with
 
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	PATH=${LOCALBASE}/llvm${LLVM_VERSION}/bin:${PATH}
 CMAKE_OFF=	ISPC_NO_DUMPS ISPC_INCLUDE_EXAMPLES
 
 BINARY_ALIAS=	flex=${LOCALBASE}/bin/flex python=${PYTHON_CMD} m4=${LOCALBASE}/bin/gm4
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/ispc \
 		bin/check_isa
 
 do-test: # some tests fail: https://github.com/ispc/ispc/issues/1868
 	@cd ${WRKSRC} && ISPC_HOME=${BUILD_WRKSRC}/bin ./run_tests.py
 
 test-check-all: # the upstream claims that some of these checks are broken without using their patched llvm version, hence using llvm-devel
 	@cd ${BUILD_WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${MAKE_ENV} ${MAKE_CMD} ${MAKE_ARGS} check-all
 
 run-examples: build
 	@[ -f ${LOCALBASE}/lib/libtbb.so ] || ! echo "ERROR run-examples target requires devel/tbb package installed"
 .for e in simple sort mandelbrot stencil
 	@cd ${WRKSRC}/examples/${e} && \
 	${ECHO} "===> Running example ${e}" && \
 	${SETENV} ${MAKE_ENV} ${MAKE_CMD} ${MAKE_ARGS} && \
 	./${e}
 .endfor
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/ispc/distinfo b/devel/ispc/distinfo
index 3d1d3883d5a2..d4928fc12244 100644
--- a/devel/ispc/distinfo
+++ b/devel/ispc/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1608421949
-SHA256 (ispc-ispc-v1.15.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 788f44abefa508644384307c9ea69ef311ce5d4cfcb513b89e56d08f04d0d4be
-SIZE (ispc-ispc-v1.15.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 19497816
+TIMESTAMP = 1626566179
+SHA256 (ispc-ispc-v1.16.1_GH0.tar.gz) = e5dcd0d85df6ed5feb454ad9ec295083a07d7459fcaba00d5dd6266ceb476399
+SIZE (ispc-ispc-v1.16.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 19549428