diff --git a/science/ergo/Makefile b/science/ergo/Makefile
index 8b81f73907f2..4a4ed86c6ecf 100644
--- a/science/ergo/Makefile
+++ b/science/ergo/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,37 @@
 PORTNAME=	ergo
-DISTVERSION=	3.8
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	3.8.1
 CATEGORIES=	science
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.ergoscf.org/source/tarfiles/
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Quantum chemistry program for large-scale atomic calculations
 WWW=		http://www.ergoscf.org/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libblas.so:math/blas \
 		liblapack.so:math/lapack
 TEST_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang gmake localbase shebangfix
+USE_CXXSTD=	c++14 # fix build broken by deprecated feature std::random_shuffle, reported to info to ergoscf.org
 
 SHEBANG_FILES=	test/check_eigenvectors.sh test/compare_homo_lumo.sh
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 
 CONFLICTS_INSTALL=	ergo-irc-server # bin/ergo
 
 TEST_TARGET=	check
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE_amd64=	SSE
 OPTIONS_DEFINE_i386=	SSE
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT_amd64=	SSE
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT_i386=	SSE
 
 SSE_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	sse-intrinsics
 
+# the lapack_test test fails, reported to the upstream's e-mail
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/science/ergo/distinfo b/science/ergo/distinfo
index 84263f85c9c0..74a6f622bed1 100644
--- a/science/ergo/distinfo
+++ b/science/ergo/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1589414315
-SHA256 (ergo-3.8.tar.gz) = 3dc63c08042c54aec74e6e97ca0b9a1ec8cac125d6c5d666c9c60fed9e98a0e8
-SIZE (ergo-3.8.tar.gz) = 3432791
+TIMESTAMP = 1689393363
+SHA256 (ergo-3.8.1.tar.gz) = 1359b0df1bf60a441990a4f99590572867529c6fe2055ea1a724a2564bebd730
+SIZE (ergo-3.8.1.tar.gz) = 3473872