diff --git a/x11-wm/river/Makefile b/x11-wm/river/Makefile
index 4c30e0e2043b..eadc16e2a3b9 100644
--- a/x11-wm/river/Makefile
+++ b/x11-wm/river/Makefile
@@ -1,39 +1,40 @@
 PORTNAME=	river
 DISTVERSION=	0.4.5
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	x11-wm wayland
 MASTER_SITES=	https://codeberg.org/river/river/releases/download/v${DISTVERSION}/
 DISTFILES=	river-${DISTVERSIONFULL}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	siva@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Non-monolithic Wayland compositor
 WWW=		https://isaacfreund.com/software/river/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSES/GPL-3.0-only.txt
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	evdev-proto>0:devel/evdev-proto \
 		wayland-protocols>0:graphics/wayland-protocols
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libevdev.so:devel/libevdev \
 		libwayland-server.so:graphics/wayland \
 		libwlroots-0.20.so:x11-toolkits/wlroots020 \
 		libinput.so:x11/libinput \
 		libxkbcommon.so:x11/libxkbcommon
 
 USES=		pkgconfig xorg zig
 USE_XORG=	pixman
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	MANPAGES X11
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT=MANPAGES X11
 OPTIONS_SUB=	yes
 
 MANPAGES_BUILD_DEPENDS=	scdoc:textproc/scdoc
 MANPAGES_CONFIGURE_ON=	-Dman-pages=true
 MANPAGES_CONFIGURE_OFF=	-Dman-pages=false
 
 X11_CONFIGURE_ON=	-Dxwayland=true
 X11_CONFIGURE_OFF=	-Dxwayland=false
 
 do-test:
 	@(cd ${WRKSRC} && ${TEST_ENV} zig build test ${CONFIGURE_ARGS})
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/x11-wm/river/files/patch-build.zig b/x11-wm/river/files/patch-build.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3ccec7ba5861
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-wm/river/files/patch-build.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- build.zig.orig	2026-04-25 12:20:33 UTC
++++ build.zig
+@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ pub fn build(b: *Build) !void {
+ 
+     const strip = b.option(bool, "strip", "Omit debug information") orelse false;
+     const pie = b.option(bool, "pie", "Build a Position Independent Executable") orelse false;
+-    const use_llvm = b.option(bool, "llvm", "Force use of Zig's LLVM backend and the lld linker") orelse false;
++    const use_llvm = b.option(bool, "llvm", "Force use of Zig's LLVM backend and the lld linker");
+ 
+     const omit_frame_pointer = switch (optimize) {
+         .Debug, .ReleaseSafe => false,