diff --git a/databases/pgagroal/Makefile b/databases/pgagroal/Makefile
index dc6c5d23ee48..4c9b2ea26cf1 100644
--- a/databases/pgagroal/Makefile
+++ b/databases/pgagroal/Makefile
@@ -1,46 +1,47 @@
 PORTNAME=	pgagroal
-DISTVERSION=	1.5.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.6.0
 CATEGORIES=	databases
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/agroal/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${DISTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	High-performance protocol-native connection pool for PostgreSQL
 WWW=		https://agroal.github.io/pgagroal/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	rst2man:textproc/py-docutils
-LIB_DEPENDS=	libev.so:devel/libev
+LIB_DEPENDS=	libcjson.so:devel/libcjson \
+		libev.so:devel/libev
 
 USES=		cmake pathfix ssl
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 USE_RC_SUBR=	pgagroal
 
 SUB_LIST=	PGAGROAL_RUNDIR="${PGAGROAL_RUNDIR}"
 
 USERS=		pgagroal
 GROUPS=		pgagroal
 
 PLIST_SUB+=	PGAGROAL_GROUP="${GROUPS}" \
 		PGAGROAL_LOGDIR="${PGAGROAL_LOGDIR}" \
 		PGAGROAL_RUNDIR="${PGAGROAL_RUNDIR}" \
 		PGAGROAL_USER="${USERS}"  \
 		PORTVERSION="${DISTVERSION}"
 
 PGAGROAL_GROUP?=	pgagroal
 PGAGROAL_USER?=		pgagroal
 
 PGAGROAL_RUNDIR?=	/var/run/pgagroal
 PGAGROAL_LOGDIR?=	/var/log/pgagroal
 
 post-patch:
 	@${MV} ${WRKSRC}/doc/etc/pgagroal.conf \
 		${WRKSRC}/doc/etc/pgagroal.conf.sample
 	@${MV} ${WRKSRC}/doc/etc/pgagroal_hba.conf \
 		${WRKSRC}/doc/etc/pgagroal_hba.conf.sample
 
 post-install:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PGAGROAL_RUNDIR} \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PGAGROAL_LOGDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/databases/pgagroal/distinfo b/databases/pgagroal/distinfo
index 50d1f978879e..e648dc86990c 100644
--- a/databases/pgagroal/distinfo
+++ b/databases/pgagroal/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1742711598
-SHA256 (pgagroal-1.5.1.tar.gz) = 4eb3aeffaf224c98fa8d9fc5c5f752763916cbe3ad8ed99b618525f5de245c35
-SIZE (pgagroal-1.5.1.tar.gz) = 282340
+TIMESTAMP = 1742818820
+SHA256 (pgagroal-1.6.0.tar.gz) = 8fe5ae7e45580ee54e9e77a88f79b796896803f2216533900f593095dd53a2ec
+SIZE (pgagroal-1.6.0.tar.gz) = 313170