diff --git a/archivers/gtar/Makefile b/archivers/gtar/Makefile
index b4bdabf4a774..b2e470b63b6d 100644
--- a/archivers/gtar/Makefile
+++ b/archivers/gtar/Makefile
@@ -1,40 +1,40 @@
 PORTNAME=	tar
-PORTVERSION=	1.34
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.35
 CATEGORIES=	archivers sysutils
 MASTER_SITES=	GNU
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	g
 
 MAINTAINER=	naddy@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	GNU version of the traditional tape archiver
 WWW=		https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 INFO=		tar
 
 USES=		charsetfix cpe iconv:${STATIC_ARGS} localbase tar:xz
 CPE_VENDOR=	gnu
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--program-prefix=g
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt
 # supply result to skip a test that will abort configure if run as root
 CONFIGURE_ENV+=	gl_cv_func_mknod_works=yes
 
-TEST_DEPENDS=	autom4te:devel/autoconf
-TEST_TARGET=	check
+# 1.35 has too many problems in the testsuite:
+# missing .at source files, bashisms, brittle xz tests
+#TEST_TARGET=	check
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	NLS STATIC
 OPTIONS_SUB=	yes
 
 NLS_USES=	gettext-runtime:${STATIC_ARGS}
 NLS_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	nls
 
 STATIC_LDFLAGS=	-static
 STATIC_CONFIGURE_ENV=	SHLIBEXT=""
 
 STATIC_VARS=	STATIC_ARGS=build
 STATIC_VARS_OFF=	STATIC_ARGS=lib
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/archivers/gtar/distinfo b/archivers/gtar/distinfo
index 411e108d524f..ca5c98e38f82 100644
--- a/archivers/gtar/distinfo
+++ b/archivers/gtar/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1613510444
-SHA256 (tar-1.34.tar.xz) = 63bebd26879c5e1eea4352f0d03c991f966aeb3ddeb3c7445c902568d5411d28
-SIZE (tar-1.34.tar.xz) = 2226068
+TIMESTAMP = 1689800016
+SHA256 (tar-1.35.tar.xz) = 4d62ff37342ec7aed748535323930c7cf94acf71c3591882b26a7ea50f3edc16
+SIZE (tar-1.35.tar.xz) = 2317208
diff --git a/archivers/gtar/files/patch-src_Makefile.in b/archivers/gtar/files/patch-src_Makefile.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ccbcaf2f4a08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/gtar/files/patch-src_Makefile.in
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- src/Makefile.in.orig	2023-07-19 21:08:48 UTC
++++ src/Makefile.in
+@@ -1793,7 +1793,8 @@ AM_CFLAGS = $(WARN_CFLAGS) $(WERROR_CFLAGS)
+ tar_LDADD = $(LIBS) ../lib/libtar.a ../gnu/libgnu.a\
+  $(LIB_ACL) $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME) $(LIB_EACCESS)\
+  $(LIB_GETRANDOM) $(LIB_HARD_LOCALE) $(FILE_HAS_ACL_LIB) $(LIB_MBRTOWC)\
+- $(LIB_SELINUX) $(LIB_SETLOCALE_NULL)
++ $(LIB_SELINUX) $(LIB_SETLOCALE_NULL) \
++ $(LIBINTL) $(LIBICONV)
+ 
+ all: all-am
+ 
diff --git a/archivers/gtar/pkg-plist b/archivers/gtar/pkg-plist
index d61364abcf47..4b54344c752b 100644
--- a/archivers/gtar/pkg-plist
+++ b/archivers/gtar/pkg-plist
@@ -1,42 +1,43 @@
 bin/gtar
 libexec/grmt
 man/man1/gtar.1.gz
 man/man8/grmt.8.gz
 %%NLS%%share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
+%%NLS%%share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
 %%NLS%%share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo