diff --git a/textproc/zed/Makefile b/textproc/zed/Makefile
index 93c60f587f30..5bc07dd59913 100644
--- a/textproc/zed/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/zed/Makefile
@@ -1,37 +1,36 @@
 PORTNAME?=	zed
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.5.0
-PORTREVISION=	2
+DISTVERSION=	1.6.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 
 MAINTAINER=	meta@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Command-line tool to manage and query Zed data lakes
 WWW=		https://zed.brimdata.io/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 BROKEN_i386=	fails to build: cannot use math.MaxUint32 (untyped int constant 4294967295) as int value in assignment (overflows)
 
 USES=		go:modules
 
 GO_MODULE?=	github.com/brimdata/zed
 GO_PKGNAME?=	github.com/brimdata/zed/cmd/zed
 
 PLIST_FILES?=	bin/zed
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if ${SLAVE_PORT} == no
 
 x-maintainer-makesum:
 	${MAKE} DISTINFO_FILE=${.CURDIR}/distinfo.zed makesum
 	${MAKE} DISTINFO_FILE=${.CURDIR}/distinfo.zq -C "${.CURDIR}/../zq" makesum
 
 	${CAT} ${.CURDIR}/distinfo.zed ${.CURDIR}/distinfo.zq | \
 		${AWK} '$$1 != "TIMESTAMP" || NR == 1' > ${.CURDIR}/distinfo
 	${RM} ${.CURDIR}/distinfo.zed ${.CURDIR}/distinfo.zq
 
 .endif
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/zed/distinfo b/textproc/zed/distinfo
index 3a53060373eb..501dc25e6a3f 100644
--- a/textproc/zed/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/zed/distinfo
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1675763594
-SHA256 (go/textproc_zed/zed-v1.5.0/v1.5.0.mod) = 97effc9eef9d9f055e903f75efdb29d66b29eec69eec043020d7bdb4b43f1e16
-SIZE (go/textproc_zed/zed-v1.5.0/v1.5.0.mod) = 3547
-SHA256 (go/textproc_zed/zed-v1.5.0/v1.5.0.zip) = c25b5c7fb5105ed447aed6596508a53d6f7e5fc55657a8eed2d156050d154e30
-SIZE (go/textproc_zed/zed-v1.5.0/v1.5.0.zip) = 3133750
-SHA256 (go/textproc_zq/zq-v1.5.0/v1.5.0.mod) = 97effc9eef9d9f055e903f75efdb29d66b29eec69eec043020d7bdb4b43f1e16
-SIZE (go/textproc_zq/zq-v1.5.0/v1.5.0.mod) = 3547
-SHA256 (go/textproc_zq/zq-v1.5.0/v1.5.0.zip) = 4835401a0560b6680cf108bdf4b966fe7ddcc23013d1f4b07393f63acdd32453
-SIZE (go/textproc_zq/zq-v1.5.0/v1.5.0.zip) = 3130676
+TIMESTAMP = 1678159799
+SHA256 (go/textproc_zed/zed-v1.6.0/v1.6.0.mod) = 5e05d032aa90cc13f9250207ff858f9b4248a6cdc803ce9d67bf1d985c9f3ef8
+SIZE (go/textproc_zed/zed-v1.6.0/v1.6.0.mod) = 3417
+SHA256 (go/textproc_zed/zed-v1.6.0/v1.6.0.zip) = eb42bf17a2c05f22fbfdf820a83767c95d15df9f1c8fa102adbe4b53cbdf342f
+SIZE (go/textproc_zed/zed-v1.6.0/v1.6.0.zip) = 3147225
+SHA256 (go/textproc_zq/zq-v1.6.0/v1.6.0.mod) = 5e05d032aa90cc13f9250207ff858f9b4248a6cdc803ce9d67bf1d985c9f3ef8
+SIZE (go/textproc_zq/zq-v1.6.0/v1.6.0.mod) = 3417
+SHA256 (go/textproc_zq/zq-v1.6.0/v1.6.0.zip) = 5e4e9da062b3c901a87964102e079d9e9614df3543cfe081d49d6629792f8e89
+SIZE (go/textproc_zq/zq-v1.6.0/v1.6.0.zip) = 3144135