diff --git a/x11-fonts/showfont/Makefile b/x11-fonts/showfont/Makefile
index 03d845d0cdbe..14c8ff57e6d9 100644
--- a/x11-fonts/showfont/Makefile
+++ b/x11-fonts/showfont/Makefile
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 PORTNAME=	showfont
-PORTVERSION=	1.0.5
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.0.7
 CATEGORIES=	x11-fonts
 
 MAINTAINER=	x11@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Font dumper for the X font server
-WWW=		https://www.x.org/
+WWW=		https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/showfont
 
-USES=		xorg xorg-cat:app
-USE_XORG=	libfs xorgproto
+LICENSE=	MIT
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
-GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX=${PREFIX}/share
+USES=		tar:xz xorg xorg-cat:app
+USE_XORG=	libfs xorgproto
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/showfont share/man/man1/showfont.1.gz
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/x11-fonts/showfont/distinfo b/x11-fonts/showfont/distinfo
index c653380d2a8d..fcee7c4973bd 100644
--- a/x11-fonts/showfont/distinfo
+++ b/x11-fonts/showfont/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-SHA256 (xorg/app/showfont-1.0.5.tar.bz2) = e9735c1c530b8a52edfab7415cc0fd7f8d2889095114f4cb689a27476461ac89
-SIZE (xorg/app/showfont-1.0.5.tar.bz2) = 125618
+TIMESTAMP = 1748278052
+SHA256 (xorg/app/showfont-1.0.7.tar.xz) = 8f725d641c12ef07746d16c892240823eccd045444a1ea182eddf229cc178fe7
+SIZE (xorg/app/showfont-1.0.7.tar.xz) = 125460
diff --git a/x11-fonts/showfont/pkg-descr b/x11-fonts/showfont/pkg-descr
index 02b8fdaa19fd..9c3db2feebf4 100644
--- a/x11-fonts/showfont/pkg-descr
+++ b/x11-fonts/showfont/pkg-descr
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-This package contains showfont, a font dumper for the X font server.
+Showfont displays data about a font from an X font server.
+The information shown includes font information, font properties,
+character metrics, and character bitmaps.