diff --git a/lang/nickle/Makefile b/lang/nickle/Makefile
index ac86dfc0745c..f29c1187aac7 100644
--- a/lang/nickle/Makefile
+++ b/lang/nickle/Makefile
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
 PORTNAME=	nickle
-PORTVERSION=	2.93
+PORTVERSION=	2.96
 CATEGORIES=	lang
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.nickle.org/release/
 
 MAINTAINER=	wen@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Numeric-oriented programming language
 WWW=		https://www.nickle.org/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 USES=		gmake localbase ncurses readline
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 PORTEXAMPLES=	*
 
 # Nickle now has bindings which are likely to pull in libraries that need
 # libpthread.  Link to it now explicitly, or it wouldn't work at runtime.
 LDFLAGS+=	-pthread
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	EXAMPLES
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e '/^SUBDIRS/s|examples|| ; s| -O2||' \
 		${WRKSRC}/Makefile.in
 
 post-install-EXAMPLES-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${EXAMPLESDIR}
 	${FIND} ${WRKSRC}/examples -name 'Makefile*' -exec ${RM} {} +
 	cd ${WRKSRC}/examples && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} . "${STAGEDIR}${EXAMPLESDIR}"
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/lang/nickle/distinfo b/lang/nickle/distinfo
index 70d4be166e27..092b8556938e 100644
--- a/lang/nickle/distinfo
+++ b/lang/nickle/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1692688920
-SHA256 (nickle-2.93.tar.gz) = a04327343e18a52eb3d86f267708532b2bf0b258c147ca74520a2511a060c858
-SIZE (nickle-2.93.tar.gz) = 2550308
+TIMESTAMP = 1701721636
+SHA256 (nickle-2.96.tar.gz) = f5edaba2c169ad4a335b0da241e316f1be40b71ca58302812d9f1ecbc74f5e06
+SIZE (nickle-2.96.tar.gz) = 2552972