diff --git a/shells/schemesh/Makefile b/shells/schemesh/Makefile
index 19ae74a60477..fcff8742f13d 100644
--- a/shells/schemesh/Makefile
+++ b/shells/schemesh/Makefile
@@ -1,38 +1,38 @@
 PORTNAME=	schemesh
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	0.7.5
+DISTVERSION=	0.7.7
 CATEGORIES=	shells
 
 MAINTAINER=	ashish@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Unix shell and Lisp REPL, fused together
 WWW=		https://github.com/cosmos72/schemesh
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	chez-scheme:lang/chez-scheme
 RUN_DEPENDS=	chez-scheme:lang/chez-scheme
 LIB_DEPENDS=	liblz4.so:archivers/liblz4 \
 		libuuid.so:misc/e2fsprogs-libuuid
 
 USES=		gmake ncurses
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	cosmos72
 CFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
 LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/schemesh \
 		lib/schemesh/libschemesh_${DISTVERSION}.so
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,chezscheme,chez-scheme,' \
 		${WRKSRC}/utils/find_chez_scheme_dir.sh
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -r -e 's/^CC=cc/CC=${CC}/' \
 		-e 's,^(prefix.+)(=.+)$$,\1= ${PREFIX},' \
 		-e '/^LDFLAGS/s|$$| ${LDFLAGS}|' \
 		-e '/^CFLAGS/s|$$| ${CFLAGS}|' \
 		${WRKSRC}/Makefile
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/shells/schemesh/distinfo b/shells/schemesh/distinfo
index 46817831aeaa..c582f4863e87 100644
--- a/shells/schemesh/distinfo
+++ b/shells/schemesh/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1739715894
-SHA256 (cosmos72-schemesh-v0.7.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 4ea282f29e21938cece5a8d3c3f3420ff91786cdc755f80f02af26544ecb4798
-SIZE (cosmos72-schemesh-v0.7.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 254799
+TIMESTAMP = 1740864440
+SHA256 (cosmos72-schemesh-v0.7.7_GH0.tar.gz) = 9c7a7208c26877d9b66b7358b3321e05d3c721880fd7eedb6049d66654f39744
+SIZE (cosmos72-schemesh-v0.7.7_GH0.tar.gz) = 268871
diff --git a/shells/schemesh/files/patch-posix_posix.c b/shells/schemesh/files/patch-posix_posix.c
index 592842e2547a..cd5646a3fb4f 100644
--- a/shells/schemesh/files/patch-posix_posix.c
+++ b/shells/schemesh/files/patch-posix_posix.c
@@ -1,28 +1,21 @@
---- posix/posix.c.orig	2025-02-16 14:38:30 UTC
+--- posix/posix.c.orig	2025-03-01 15:14:20 UTC
 +++ posix/posix.c
-@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
-  * (at your option) any later version.
-  */
-
--#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200809L /* fstatat() */
--#define _DEFAULT_SOURCE         /* DT_* */
--#define _BSD_SOURCE             /* DT_* */
--
- #include "posix.h"
- #include "../containers/containers.h" /* schemesh_Sbytevector() */
- #include "../eval.h"                  /* eval() */
-@@ -817,8 +813,14 @@ static ptr c_get_hostname(void) {
-
+@@ -849,12 +849,18 @@ static ptr c_get_hostname(void) {
+ 
  /** return Scheme string, or Scheme integer on error */
  static ptr c_get_hostname(void) {
 +#ifdef __FreeBSD__
 +  int len = sysconf(_SC_HOST_NAME_MAX) + 1;
 +  char* buf = alloca(len);
 +  if (gethostname(buf, len) != 0) {
 +#else
+ #ifdef HOST_NAME_MAX
    char buf[HOST_NAME_MAX + 1];
+ #else
+   char buf[256];
+ #endif
    if (gethostname(buf, sizeof(buf)) != 0) {
 +#endif
      return Sinteger(c_errno());
    }
    return schemesh_Sstring_utf8b(buf, -1);
diff --git a/shells/schemesh/files/patch-posix_signal.h b/shells/schemesh/files/patch-posix_signal.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 28774e535214..000000000000
--- a/shells/schemesh/files/patch-posix_signal.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- posix/signal.h.orig	2025-02-16 14:43:54 UTC
-+++ posix/signal.h
-@@ -138,11 +138,11 @@ static ptr c_signals_list(void) {
-                   {SIGBUS, "sigbus"},       {SIGFPE, "sigfpe"},       {SIGKILL, "sigkill"},
-                   {SIGUSR1, "sigusr1"},     {SIGSEGV, "sigsegv"},     {SIGUSR2, "sigusr2"},
-                   {SIGPIPE, "sigpipe"},     {SIGALRM, "sigalrm"},     {SIGTERM, "sigterm"},
--                  {SIGSTKFLT, "sigstkflt"}, {SIGCHLD, "sigchld"},     {SIGCONT, "sigcont"},
-+                  /* {SIGSTKFLT, "sigstkflt"}, */ {SIGCHLD, "sigchld"},     {SIGCONT, "sigcont"},
-                   {SIGSTOP, "sigstop"},     {SIGTSTP, "sigtstp"},     {SIGTTIN, "sigttin"},
-                   {SIGTTOU, "sigttou"},     {SIGURG, "sigurg"},       {SIGXCPU, "sigxcpu"},
-                   {SIGXFSZ, "sigxfsz"},     {SIGVTALRM, "sigvtalrm"}, {SIGPROF, "sigprof"},
--                  {SIGWINCH, "sigwinch"},   {SIGIO, "sigio"},         {SIGPWR, "sigpwr"},
-+                  {SIGWINCH, "sigwinch"},   {SIGIO, "sigio"},         /* {SIGPWR, "sigpwr"}, */
-                   {SIGSYS, "sigsys"}};
-
-   ptr    ret = Snil;