diff --git a/math/octave-forge-optim/Makefile b/math/octave-forge-optim/Makefile
index 4a269411d58c..ea857aa5160c 100644
--- a/math/octave-forge-optim/Makefile
+++ b/math/octave-forge-optim/Makefile
@@ -1,36 +1,35 @@
 # Created by: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
 
 PORTNAME=	octave-forge-optim
-PORTVERSION=	1.6.1
-PORTREVISION=	4
+PORTVERSION=	1.6.2
 CATEGORIES=	math
 
 MAINTAINER=	stephen@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Octave-forge package ${OCTAVE_PKGNAME}
 
 LICENSE=	Parts
 LICENSE_NAME=	See individual files for licenses
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKDIR}/${OCTSRC}/COPYING
 LICENSE_PERMS=	dist-mirror dist-sell pkg-mirror pkg-sell auto-accept
 
 # OCTSRC is the name of the directory of the package.
 # It is usually ${OCTAVE_PKGNAME} or ${DISTNAME}.
 OCTSRC=		${DISTNAME}
 
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${OCTSRC}/src
 
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${TARBALLS_DIR}/statistics.tar.gz:math/octave-forge-statistics
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${TARBALLS_DIR}/struct.tar.gz:math/octave-forge-struct
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 
 .include "${.CURDIR}/../../Mk/bsd.octave.mk"
 
 USES+=		shebangfix
 SHEBANG_FILES=	*.pl
 
 post-build:
 	${RM} ${WRKSRC}/Makefile ${WRKSRC}/configure
 	cd ${WRKDIR} && ${TAR} cfz ${DISTNAME}.tar.gz ${OCTSRC}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/math/octave-forge-optim/distinfo b/math/octave-forge-optim/distinfo
index 4320f96a6fa2..2294e350add6 100644
--- a/math/octave-forge-optim/distinfo
+++ b/math/octave-forge-optim/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1613612633
-SHA256 (octave-forge/optim-1.6.1.tar.gz) = 7150cdfac7e9da31ec7ac1cfe8619d9c0e9c8b3f787f54bf89e0fb1c275be584
-SIZE (octave-forge/optim-1.6.1.tar.gz) = 424554
+TIMESTAMP = 1650040757
+SHA256 (octave-forge/optim-1.6.2.tar.gz) = 554a8e18bb7195ae861f5059c14f1a557844265c1addb5bfbf3ab9885524787e
+SIZE (octave-forge/optim-1.6.2.tar.gz) = 420480
diff --git a/math/octave-forge-optim/files/patch-lsqlin.m b/math/octave-forge-optim/files/patch-lsqlin.m
deleted file mode 100644
index 55e191b75906..000000000000
--- a/math/octave-forge-optim/files/patch-lsqlin.m
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- ../inst/lsqlin.m.orig	2022-04-08 22:29:29.290901000 -0500
-+++ ../inst/lsqlin.m	2022-04-08 22:29:41.495111000 -0500
-@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
- 
-   if (n_out > 2)
-     ## We don't need to know if original n_out was 3 or 2.
--    n_out --;
-+    n_out--;
-   endif
- 
-   quadprog_out = cell (1, max (n_out, 1));
diff --git a/math/octave-forge-optim/files/patch-vfzero.m b/math/octave-forge-optim/files/patch-vfzero.m
deleted file mode 100644
index c08712576fc1..000000000000
--- a/math/octave-forge-optim/files/patch-vfzero.m
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- ../inst/vfzero.m.orig	2022-04-08 22:30:39.255870000 -0500
-+++ ../inst/vfzero.m	2022-04-08 22:30:55.406374000 -0500
-@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
- 				# fun() might expect full-length
- 				# argument
-       fval(idx, 1) = fc(idx, 1) = fun (c)(:)(idx, 1);
--      niter ++; nfev ++;
-+      niter++; nfev++;
-     endif
- 
-     ## Modification 2: skip inverse cubic interpolation if