diff --git a/net/mercury/Makefile b/net/mercury/Makefile
index 3426719cedf8..7379944c4496 100644
--- a/net/mercury/Makefile
+++ b/net/mercury/Makefile
@@ -1,29 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	mercury
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	2.3.0
+DISTVERSION=	2.3.1
 CATEGORIES=	net
 PKGNAMESUFFIX=	-rpc
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	C library for implementing RPC, optimized for HPC
 WWW=		https://mercury-hpc.github.io/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
+LIB_DEPENDS=	libjson-c.so:devel/json-c
+
 USES=		cmake:testing
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	mercury-hpc
 GH_TUPLE=	mercury-hpc:kwsys:ee35b49:kwsys/Testing/driver/kwsys \
 		mercury-hpc:mchecksum:a4c489d:mchecksum/src/mchecksum \
 		mercury-hpc:preprocessor:749783c:preprocessor/src/boost
 
 CMAKE_ON=	BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
 
 .if !exists(/usr/include/byteswap.h)
 BROKEN=		needs /usr/include/byteswap.h
 .endif
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/mercury/distinfo b/net/mercury/distinfo
index 5e6dfccb0291..0abce0d83edc 100644
--- a/net/mercury/distinfo
+++ b/net/mercury/distinfo
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1691129378
-SHA256 (mercury-hpc-mercury-v2.3.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 2d2bb7900ee9c32b923798352d06d859f588fb593a9943253aa3c28758fa1c6b
-SIZE (mercury-hpc-mercury-v2.3.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 506473
+TIMESTAMP = 1698713584
+SHA256 (mercury-hpc-mercury-v2.3.1_GH0.tar.gz) = b24b0b053e9656055c5229fee83cecbba7e8fc605df3020907cb7b7eae9b8e98
+SIZE (mercury-hpc-mercury-v2.3.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 515691
 SHA256 (mercury-hpc-kwsys-ee35b49_GH0.tar.gz) = c3b03e95e5aca586d3fa8662d30676c60bbfad2d8d6f4e84a0c67cec3fad163f
 SIZE (mercury-hpc-kwsys-ee35b49_GH0.tar.gz) = 225218
 SHA256 (mercury-hpc-mchecksum-a4c489d_GH0.tar.gz) = c3a42462b9040a049872834155832cef395a82ef78b4fd42bab4bb20ce63d07a
 SIZE (mercury-hpc-mchecksum-a4c489d_GH0.tar.gz) = 28067
 SHA256 (mercury-hpc-preprocessor-749783c_GH0.tar.gz) = d22fa2122bff7dda52ba167d408a0047439f598d56c4c5b734399f6d03549a8d
 SIZE (mercury-hpc-preprocessor-749783c_GH0.tar.gz) = 195007
diff --git a/net/mercury/pkg-plist b/net/mercury/pkg-plist
index 1c2763da023d..2ee955e9ebd2 100644
--- a/net/mercury/pkg-plist
+++ b/net/mercury/pkg-plist
@@ -1,61 +1,61 @@
 bin/hg_info
 include/mercury.h
 include/mercury_atomic.h
 include/mercury_atomic_queue.h
 include/mercury_bulk.h
 include/mercury_byteswap.h
 include/mercury_compiler_attributes.h
 include/mercury_config.h
 include/mercury_core.h
 include/mercury_core_header.h
 include/mercury_core_types.h
 include/mercury_dl.h
 include/mercury_dlog.h
 include/mercury_event.h
 include/mercury_hash_string.h
 include/mercury_hash_table.h
 include/mercury_header.h
 include/mercury_inet.h
 include/mercury_list.h
 include/mercury_log.h
 include/mercury_macros.h
 include/mercury_mem.h
 include/mercury_mem_pool.h
 include/mercury_param.h
 include/mercury_poll.h
 include/mercury_proc.h
 include/mercury_proc_bulk.h
 include/mercury_proc_string.h
 include/mercury_queue.h
 include/mercury_request.h
 include/mercury_string_object.h
 include/mercury_thread.h
 include/mercury_thread_annotation.h
 include/mercury_thread_condition.h
 include/mercury_thread_mutex.h
 include/mercury_thread_pool.h
 include/mercury_thread_rwlock.h
 include/mercury_thread_spin.h
 include/mercury_time.h
 include/mercury_types.h
 include/mercury_util.h
 include/mercury_util_config.h
 include/na.h
 include/na_config.h
 include/na_types.h
 lib/libmercury.so
 lib/libmercury.so.2
-lib/libmercury.so.2.3.0
+lib/libmercury.so.2.3.1
 lib/libmercury_util.so
 lib/libmercury_util.so.4
 lib/libmercury_util.so.4.0.0
 lib/libna.so
 lib/libna.so.4
 lib/libna.so.4.0.0
 libdata/pkgconfig/mercury.pc
 libdata/pkgconfig/mercury_util.pc
 libdata/pkgconfig/na.pc
 share/cmake/mercury/mercury-config-version.cmake
 share/cmake/mercury/mercury-config.cmake
 share/cmake/mercury/mercury-targets-%%CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE%%.cmake
 share/cmake/mercury/mercury-targets.cmake