diff --git a/science/qbox/Makefile b/science/qbox/Makefile
index 400cc8093dcd..40d385481e47 100644
--- a/science/qbox/Makefile
+++ b/science/qbox/Makefile
@@ -1,43 +1,43 @@
 PORTNAME=	qbox
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	rel
-DISTVERSION=	1_77_0
+DISTVERSION=	1_78_0
 CATEGORIES=	science
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	First-principles molecular dynamics code
 WWW=		http://qboxcode.org/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/../COPYING
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libblas.so:math/blas \
 		libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
 		libfftw3.so:math/fftw3 \
 		liblapack.so:math/lapack \
 		libmpicxx.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, tests fail to link, see https://github.com/qboxcode/qbox-public/issues/11
 
 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 a89e0a475198..9320fb5d8b71 100644
--- a/science/qbox/distinfo
+++ b/science/qbox/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1720835689
-SHA256 (qboxcode-qbox-public-rel1_77_0_GH0.tar.gz) = 4d911cd87be37bb34c9b3709b15cec4e1fc74f60c07c6f8587e97f27530b9bd4
-SIZE (qboxcode-qbox-public-rel1_77_0_GH0.tar.gz) = 718572
+TIMESTAMP = 1721071180
+SHA256 (qboxcode-qbox-public-rel1_78_0_GH0.tar.gz) = 20f7520505bc0509fe5e482d3cec274783633010cf5dec4ab1f3eb3fcd614fea
+SIZE (qboxcode-qbox-public-rel1_78_0_GH0.tar.gz) = 718845