diff --git a/net/rpki-client/Makefile b/net/rpki-client/Makefile
index 8d4caab8f37c..0cf194a6d2a2 100644
--- a/net/rpki-client/Makefile
+++ b/net/rpki-client/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,33 @@
 PORTNAME=	rpki-client
-DISTVERSION=	9.5
+DISTVERSION=	9.6
 CATEGORIES=	net
 MASTER_SITES=	OPENBSD
 MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=rpki-client
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) implementation from OpenBSD
 WWW=		https://www.rpki-client.org/
 
 LICENSE=	ISCL
 
 NOT_FOR_ARCHS=	i386
 NOT_FOR_ARCHS_REASON=	Does not support broken OS with small time_t
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	rsync>0:net/rsync
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libexpat.so:textproc/expat2 \
 		libtls.so:security/libretls
 RUN_DEPENDS=	rsync>0:net/rsync
 
 USES=		libtool pkgconfig ssl
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-libtls=libtls
 
+LDFLAGS+=	-lpthread
+
 USERS=		_rpki-client
 GROUPS=		${USERS}
 
 PLIST_SUB=	USERS="${USERS}"
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/rpki-client/distinfo b/net/rpki-client/distinfo
index de3f5b5dc68f..3e4a9ad7bf24 100644
--- a/net/rpki-client/distinfo
+++ b/net/rpki-client/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1744530719
-SHA256 (rpki-client-9.5.tar.gz) = daee7ee0d1c74ef3b44ad14fe6315a503919a49187379d2473299c28cb30be43
-SIZE (rpki-client-9.5.tar.gz) = 570916
+TIMESTAMP = 1758606538
+SHA256 (rpki-client-9.6.tar.gz) = 07cbd27af99f1b6096769e697e38631519c69cb642bee3af39a763fa1590d947
+SIZE (rpki-client-9.6.tar.gz) = 587580