diff --git a/x11-wm/cwm/Makefile b/x11-wm/cwm/Makefile
index 5ed61e0e9a29..f4aac7d873da 100644
--- a/x11-wm/cwm/Makefile
+++ b/x11-wm/cwm/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	cwm
-DISTVERSION=	7.4
-PORTREVISION= 	1
+DISTVERSION=	7.9
 CATEGORIES=	x11-wm
 MASTER_SITES=	https://leahneukirchen.org/releases/
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Minimalistic window manager for X11 based on evilwm
 WWW=		https://github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm
 
 LICENSE=	ISCL
 
 USES=		pkgconfig xorg
 USE_XORG=	x11 xft xrandr
 MAKE_ARGS=	MANPREFIX="${PREFIX}/share/man"
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/cwm \
 		share/man/man1/cwm.1.gz \
 		share/man/man5/cwmrc.5.gz
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} 's@/usr/X11R6@${LOCALBASE}@' ${WRKSRC}/cwmrc.5
 
 post-install:
 	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/cwm
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/x11-wm/cwm/distinfo b/x11-wm/cwm/distinfo
index e56909ec1763..3d164eb29cb0 100644
--- a/x11-wm/cwm/distinfo
+++ b/x11-wm/cwm/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1697881057
-SHA256 (cwm-7.4.tar.gz) = b4f275143c8c716d7df1cfbb230f888c72aa861708e144d1749858f1cc6fcac0
-SIZE (cwm-7.4.tar.gz) = 53781
+TIMESTAMP = 1779303238
+SHA256 (cwm-7.9.tar.gz) = ec75056a5f57980d9f57076c4ae7d25a1e6903ea4e793c0a04b98e25edb0fc90
+SIZE (cwm-7.9.tar.gz) = 54130