diff --git a/games/pentobi/Makefile b/games/pentobi/Makefile
index bf4d6a52abb8..55e374ed3f54 100644
--- a/games/pentobi/Makefile
+++ b/games/pentobi/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,33 @@
 PORTNAME=	pentobi
-PORTVERSION=	25.2
+PORTVERSION=	26.0
 CATEGORIES=	games
 MASTER_SITES=	SF/${PORTNAME}/${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	amdmi3@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Computer opponent for the board game Blokus
 WWW=		https://pentobi.sourceforge.io/ \
 		https://github.com/enz/pentobi
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.md
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	itstool:textproc/itstool
-
 USES=		compiler:c++20-lang cmake desktop-file-utils gettext-tools gnome qt:6 \
 		shared-mime-info tar:xz
 USE_GNOME=	librsvg2:build
 USE_QT=		base declarative tools:build
 
 PORTDATA=	*
 PORTDOCS=	*
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS TEST
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT=TEST
 
 TEST_CMAKE_BOOL=	BUILD_TESTING
 TEST_TEST_TARGET=	test
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${INSTALL_DATA} AUTHORS.md CONTRIBUTING.md NEWS.md \
 		README.md ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}/
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/games/pentobi/distinfo b/games/pentobi/distinfo
index ded1f7e5f2b3..a7d7dced09c3 100644
--- a/games/pentobi/distinfo
+++ b/games/pentobi/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1731680405
-SHA256 (pentobi-25.2.tar.xz) = eda09fa128954b81349817ef77efcf4b96def64680fc0f35695eb753dd3ef5a2
-SIZE (pentobi-25.2.tar.xz) = 451416
+TIMESTAMP = 1738276507
+SHA256 (pentobi-26.0.tar.xz) = 12dde3b622c327847bda4049fa9b440cd5b8329e90906bf2cf964b70b529d7e9
+SIZE (pentobi-26.0.tar.xz) = 466000