diff --git a/science/mpb/Makefile b/science/mpb/Makefile
index 556983af2503..74104a94cb6d 100644
--- a/science/mpb/Makefile
+++ b/science/mpb/Makefile
@@ -1,52 +1,52 @@
 PORTNAME=	mpb
-DISTVERSION=	1.11.1
-PORTREVISION=	11
+DISTVERSION=	1.12.0
 CATEGORIES=	science
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/NanoComp/mpb/releases/download/v${DISTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	rhurlin@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	MIT Photonic-Bands
 WWW=		https://mpb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash
 # NLOPT should be enabled in science/libctl
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libctl.so:science/libctl \
 		libfftw3.so:math/fftw3 \
 		libhdf5.so:science/hdf5 \
 		libnlopt.so:math/nlopt
 
 USES=		fortran guile:2.2,alias libtool pkgconfig readline
 USE_GCC=	yes
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 # Do not use --with-mpi, because it is not guaranted
-# that science/hdf5 also built with option PARALLEL
+# that science/hdf5 also built with option PARALLEL.
+# TODO: if bin/h5pcc exists, hdf5 is built with PARALLEL
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX=	${PREFIX}/share
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--enable-shared
 
 MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=	yes
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 TEST_TARGET=	check
 
 CPPFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include -fpermissive
 LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		ATLAS OPENMP
 
 ATLAS_DESC=	Use math/atlas instead of math/openblas
 OPENMP_DESC=	Use OpenMP (enable also in math/fftw3)
 
 ATLAS_LIB_DEPENDS=	libatlas.so:math/atlas
 ATLAS_USES_OFF=		blaslapack:openblas
 ATLAS_CONFIGURE_ON=	--with-lapack=-lalapack
 ATLAS_CONFIGURE_OFF=	--with-blas=openblas --with-lapack=-lopenblas
 OPENMP_CONFIGURE_ON=	--with-openmp
 
 post-install:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${EXAMPLESDIR}
 	(cd ${WRKSRC}/examples && \
 	${COPYTREE_SHARE} "*.ctl *.scm" ${STAGEDIR}${EXAMPLESDIR})
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/science/mpb/distinfo b/science/mpb/distinfo
index f64ee3c25203..f4bce5558292 100644
--- a/science/mpb/distinfo
+++ b/science/mpb/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1603732678
-SHA256 (mpb-1.11.1.tar.gz) = dc55b081c56079727dac92d309f8e4ea84ca6eea9122ec24b7955f8c258608e1
-SIZE (mpb-1.11.1.tar.gz) = 636154
+TIMESTAMP = 1744484384
+SHA256 (mpb-1.12.0.tar.gz) = 8d2b206254b217f66a53c1ad20cc0c369b93b0e71ee671d68e333a583eaaeda4
+SIZE (mpb-1.12.0.tar.gz) = 667392
diff --git a/science/mpb/pkg-plist b/science/mpb/pkg-plist
index 37ecbcca430c..4efcd1a1c8d2 100644
--- a/science/mpb/pkg-plist
+++ b/science/mpb/pkg-plist
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 bin/mpb
 bin/mpb-data
 bin/mpb-split
 include/mpb.h
 include/mpb/eigensolver.h
 include/mpb/matrices.h
 include/mpb/maxwell.h
 include/mpb/scalar.h
 include/mpb/verbosity.h
 lib/libmpb.a
 lib/libmpb.so
-lib/libmpb.so.1
-lib/libmpb.so.1.4.1
+lib/libmpb.so.6
+lib/libmpb.so.6.0.0
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/bragg-sine.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/bragg.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/check.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/diamond.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/dos.scm
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/hole-slab.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/honey-rods.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/line-defect.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/sq-rods.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/strip.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/tri-holes.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/tri-rods.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/tutorial.ctl
 %%EXAMPLESDIR%%/wavevector.scm
 share/man/man1/mpb-data.1.gz
 share/man/man1/mpb-split.1.gz
 share/man/man1/mpb.1.gz
 %%DATADIR%%/mpb.scm