diff --git a/science/qbox/Makefile b/science/qbox/Makefile
index d7db03d27404..5350e3090d6a 100644
--- a/science/qbox/Makefile
+++ b/science/qbox/Makefile
@@ -1,41 +1,42 @@
 PORTNAME=	qbox
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	rel
-DISTVERSION=	1_73_3
+DISTVERSION=	1_74_1
 CATEGORIES=	science
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	First-principles molecular dynamics code
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/../COPYING
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libblas.so:math/blas \
 		libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
 		libfftw3.so:math/fftw3 \
 		liblapack.so:math/lapack \
 		libmpich.so:net/mpich \
 		libscalapack.so:math/scalapack \
 		libuuid.so:misc/e2fsprogs-libuuid \
 		libxerces-c.so:textproc/xerces-c3
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang gmake iconv:wchar_t localbase:ldflags
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	qboxcode
 GH_PROJECT=	qbox-public
 
 WRKSRC_SUBDIR=	src
 
 MAKE_ARGS=	TARGET=freebsd
 
 ALL_TARGET=	qb
+TEST_TARGET=	tests # only builds tests, but doesn't run them: https://github.com/qboxcode/qbox-public/issues/6
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/qb
 
 post-extract:
 	@${SED} -e 's|%%LOCALBASE%%|${LOCALBASE}|; s|%%CXXFLAGS%%|${CXXFLAGS}|; s|%%LDFLAGS%%|${LDFLAGS}|' < ${FILESDIR}/freebsd.mk.in > ${WRKSRC}/freebsd.mk
 
 do-install:
 	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/qb ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/science/qbox/distinfo b/science/qbox/distinfo
index 0cbb380515e9..655bd82168c7 100644
--- a/science/qbox/distinfo
+++ b/science/qbox/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1629524511
-SHA256 (qboxcode-qbox-public-rel1_73_3_GH0.tar.gz) = 9af224007ae06621af7be297d9135c271321910e6249b6d45b8c43c83b824b54
-SIZE (qboxcode-qbox-public-rel1_73_3_GH0.tar.gz) = 710067
+TIMESTAMP = 1642177105
+SHA256 (qboxcode-qbox-public-rel1_74_1_GH0.tar.gz) = b53c05d6b0b433f8d307f00c7a6ecb44dc028677c518eaf2049a1357a87e2b91
+SIZE (qboxcode-qbox-public-rel1_74_1_GH0.tar.gz) = 711210