diff --git a/misc/py-gguf/Makefile b/misc/py-gguf/Makefile
index 918cd5af3ece..61a062b5dc8f 100644
--- a/misc/py-gguf/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-gguf/Makefile
@@ -1,37 +1,42 @@
 PORTNAME=	gguf
-DISTVERSION=	0.16.0
+DISTVERSION=	0.16.0.${GH_TAGNAME:S/b//} # the base version is in pyproject.toml, updated by post-patch
 CATEGORIES=	misc python # machine-learning
 #MASTER_SITES=	PYPI # the PYPI version is way behind of llama-cpp
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Read and write ML models in GGUF for GGML
 WWW=		https://ggml.ai \
 		https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}poetry-core>=1.0.0:devel/py-poetry-core@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=5.1:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sentencepiece>=0.1.98:textproc/py-sentencepiece@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tqdm>=4.27:misc/py-tqdm@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python shebangfix
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	ggml-org
 GH_PROJECT=	llama.cpp
-GH_TAGNAME=	b4837
+GH_TAGNAME=	b5061
 
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${GH_PROJECT}-${GH_TAGNAME}/gguf-py
 
 SHEBANG_GLOB=	*.py
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+post-patch: # update version to reflect llama-cpp revision, have to use '.' since '-' is interpreted as "post"
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} \
+		-e 's/version = "0.16.0"/version = "0.16.0.${GH_TAGNAME:S/b//}"/' \
+		${WRKSRC}/pyproject.toml
+
 # tests as of 0.16.0: 5 passed in 1.64s
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-gguf/distinfo b/misc/py-gguf/distinfo
index 342771fb3afc..12621998f826 100644
--- a/misc/py-gguf/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-gguf/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1741639456
-SHA256 (ggml-org-llama.cpp-0.16.0-b4837_GH0.tar.gz) = 60587fd5b417ac35d691284e1b117a8c114f10c8d3960494551a4e49338b5e0f
-SIZE (ggml-org-llama.cpp-0.16.0-b4837_GH0.tar.gz) = 20796825
+TIMESTAMP = 1743976580
+SHA256 (ggml-org-llama.cpp-0.16.0.5061-b5061_GH0.tar.gz) = 81a41329de428525b6274eaf18d7e71352e058e07421eeecdbcca675470d7dea
+SIZE (ggml-org-llama.cpp-0.16.0.5061-b5061_GH0.tar.gz) = 21005103