diff --git a/textproc/cmark/Makefile b/textproc/cmark/Makefile
index 9fcb4977160a..b17cfd74cf82 100644
--- a/textproc/cmark/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/cmark/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
 PORTNAME=	cmark
-DISTVERSION=	0.30.2
+DISTVERSION=	0.31.1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 
 MAINTAINER=	adridg@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C
 WWW=		https://github.com/commonmark/cmark
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
-USES=		cmake python:test
+USES=		cmake:testing pathfix python:test
+USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
+
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	commonmark
-USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
-CMAKE_ARGS=	-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR:STRING="lib"
-PLIST_SUB=	VERSION=${PORTVERSION}
-TEST_TARGET=	test
+PLIST_SUB=	VERSION=${DISTVERSION}
+
+CMAKE_OFF=	BUILD_TESTING
+CMAKE_ON=	BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/cmark/distinfo b/textproc/cmark/distinfo
index 0580e80d7c81..ccce72cdbabd 100644
--- a/textproc/cmark/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/cmark/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1635287323
-SHA256 (commonmark-cmark-0.30.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 6c7d2bcaea1433d977d8fed0b55b71c9d045a7cdf616e3cd2dce9007da753db3
-SIZE (commonmark-cmark-0.30.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 246033
+TIMESTAMP = 1723230166
+SHA256 (commonmark-cmark-0.31.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 3da93db5469c30588cfeb283d9d62edfc6ded9eb0edc10a4f5bbfb7d722ea802
+SIZE (commonmark-cmark-0.31.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 264170
diff --git a/textproc/cmark/pkg-plist b/textproc/cmark/pkg-plist
index 68d518fb4eee..5c97f167e4a9 100644
--- a/textproc/cmark/pkg-plist
+++ b/textproc/cmark/pkg-plist
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 bin/cmark
 include/cmark.h
 include/cmark_export.h
 include/cmark_version.h
 lib/cmake/cmark/cmark-config-version.cmake
 lib/cmake/cmark/cmark-config.cmake
 lib/cmake/cmark/cmark-targets-%%CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE%%.cmake
 lib/cmake/cmark/cmark-targets.cmake
-lib/libcmark.a
 lib/libcmark.so
 lib/libcmark.so.%%VERSION%%
 libdata/pkgconfig/libcmark.pc
 share/man/man1/cmark.1.gz
 share/man/man3/cmark.3.gz