diff --git a/textproc/krep/Makefile b/textproc/krep/Makefile
index febfb02ae226..97aad70deda7 100644
--- a/textproc/krep/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/krep/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 PORTNAME=	krep
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	3.0.2
+DISTVERSION=	3.1.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 
 MAINTAINER=	alven@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	High-performance string search utility
 WWW=		https://github.com/davidesantangelo/krep/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 USES=		gmake
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	davidesantangelo
 
 TEST_TARGET=	test
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/krep
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/krep/distinfo b/textproc/krep/distinfo
index 7dd47a7ffd7d..669fa5fecde2 100644
--- a/textproc/krep/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/krep/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1788437972
-SHA256 (davidesantangelo-krep-v3.0.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 5aa957278bf6c0a1c30b8bfcc481f92ba338d8c93d7d2e3c233581a7055d3b86
-SIZE (davidesantangelo-krep-v3.0.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 92159
+TIMESTAMP = 1789605812
+SHA256 (davidesantangelo-krep-v3.1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 536342ce821bfaa4afc37c19d96cc54a37755a866b6564dc825be7a0a242a068
+SIZE (davidesantangelo-krep-v3.1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 97217
diff --git a/textproc/krep/files/patch-Makefile b/textproc/krep/files/patch-Makefile
index 1cacaa0c2662..246e11af74fc 100644
--- a/textproc/krep/files/patch-Makefile
+++ b/textproc/krep/files/patch-Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
---- Makefile.orig	2026-04-15 10:01:25 UTC
+--- Makefile.orig	2026-09-16 08:38:04 UTC
 +++ Makefile
 @@ -5,11 +5,15 @@ BINDIR = $(PREFIX)/bin
  PREFIX ?= /usr/local
  BINDIR = $(PREFIX)/bin
  
 -CC = gcc
 -CFLAGS = -Wall -Wextra -O3 -std=c11 -pthread -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE \
 +CC ?= gcc
 +CFLAGS ?= -Wall -Wextra -O3 -std=c11 -pthread -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE \
           -flto -funroll-loops -finline-functions
 -LDFLAGS = -pthread -flto
 +LDFLAGS += -pthread -flto
  
 +# All SIMD "hacks/detection" should be disabled as we have CPUTYPE and the current
 +# approach is also broken as host might not share the same CPU features as target.
 +ifeq (0, 1)
 +
- # Build mode: set NATIVE=1 for maximum performance on local machine
+ # Build mode: NATIVE=1 tunes for this CPU; PORTABLE=1 avoids host x86 ISA flags.
  # Example: make NATIVE=1
- ifdef NATIVE
-@@ -46,6 +50,8 @@ else ifeq ($(ARCH), aarch64)
+ ifeq ($(NATIVE),1)
+@@ -48,6 +52,8 @@ else ifeq ($(ARCH), aarch64)
  else ifeq ($(ARCH), aarch64)
      # Enable NEON for aarch64 Linux
      CFLAGS += -D__ARM_NEON
 +endif
 +
  endif
  
  # Source files
diff --git a/textproc/krep/files/patch-krep.c b/textproc/krep/files/patch-krep.c
deleted file mode 100644
index b7d17b8633aa..000000000000
--- a/textproc/krep/files/patch-krep.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- krep.c.orig	2026-07-01 08:23:35 UTC
-+++ krep.c
-@@ -5721,6 +5721,27 @@ uint64_t memchr_short_search(const search_params_t *pa
- // Handles case-sensitive patterns of any length.
- // Uses 2x 16-byte loads per iteration with fast mask extraction via
- // vshrn/vmovn instead of store-to-memory.
-+
-+#ifdef __aarch64__
-+static inline bool
-+is_nonzero(uint8x16_t a)
-+{
-+	return (vmaxvq_u8(a) != 0);
-+}
-+#else
-+/* no vmaxvq_u8() on AArch32 */
-+static inline bool
-+is_nonzero(uint8x16_t a)
-+{
-+	uint8x8_t a8, a4;
-+
-+	a8 = vmax_u8(vget_low_u8(a), vget_high_u8(a));
-+	a4 = vpmax_u8(a8, a8);
-+
-+	return (vget_lane_u32(a4, 0) != 0);
-+}
-+#endif /* defined(__aarch64__) */
-+
- uint64_t neon_search(const search_params_t *params,
-                      const char *text_start,
-                      size_t text_len,