diff --git a/editors/nedit/Makefile b/editors/nedit/Makefile
index 2399c63f6d7f..404129b65e8a 100644
--- a/editors/nedit/Makefile
+++ b/editors/nedit/Makefile
@@ -1,33 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	nedit
-PORTVERSION=	5.7
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	5.8
 CATEGORIES=	editors
-#MASTER_SITES=	LOCAL/swills
 MASTER_SITES=	SF/${PORTNAME}/${PORTNAME}-source/
-DISTFILES=	nedit-${PORTVERSION}-src.tar.gz
+DISTFILES=	nedit-${DISTVERSION}-src.tar.gz
 
-MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
+MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	X11/Motif GUI text editor for programs and plain text files
 WWW=		https://sourceforge.net/projects/nedit/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv1
 
 USES=		motif perl5 xorg
 USE_PERL5=	build
 ALL_TARGET=	freebsd
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/nclient \
 		bin/nedit \
 		lib/X11/app-defaults/NEdit.ad \
 		share/man/man1/nclient.1.gz \
 		share/man/man1/nedit.1.gz
 
 post-build:
 	cd ${WRKSRC} && make docs
 
 post-install::
 .for file in nedit nclient
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/${file}
 .endfor
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/editors/nedit/distinfo b/editors/nedit/distinfo
index 80e979746e01..d16257abf4ee 100644
--- a/editors/nedit/distinfo
+++ b/editors/nedit/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1702734960
-SHA256 (nedit-5.7-src.tar.gz) = add9ac79ff973528ad36c86858238bac4f59896c27dbf285cbe6a4d425fca17a
-SIZE (nedit-5.7-src.tar.gz) = 1344754
+TIMESTAMP = 1778665069
+SHA256 (nedit-5.8-src.tar.gz) = 5851aa7252dad952084529173640232562dec4a7c440209f196d53d4a5a8074d
+SIZE (nedit-5.8-src.tar.gz) = 1351856