diff --git a/irc/znc/Makefile b/irc/znc/Makefile
index 7619b31401ca..6d45cedecf59 100644
--- a/irc/znc/Makefile
+++ b/irc/znc/Makefile
@@ -1,81 +1,84 @@
 PORTNAME=	znc
 DISTVERSION=	1.10.1
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTREVISION=	2
 CATEGORIES=	irc
 MASTER_SITES=	https://znc.in/releases/ \
 		https://znc.in/releases/archive/
 
+PATCH_SITES=	https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/
+PATCHFILES=	49af1c8d53031e83877d3a378682dee9b834123b.patch:-p1
+
 MAINTAINER=	dbaio@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Advanced IRC bouncer
 WWW=		https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	swig>=4.0.1:devel/swig
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libcctz.so:devel/cctz \
 		libicuuc.so:devel/icu
 
 USES=		compiler:c++17-lang cpe cmake:run iconv pathfix \
 		perl5 pkgconfig:both python ssl
 USE_PERL5=	build
 
 EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS=	--exclude ${PORTNAME}-${DISTVERSION}/third_party/cctz \
 			--exclude ${PORTNAME}-${DISTVERSION}/third_party/googletest \
 			--exclude ${PORTNAME}-${DISTVERSION}/third_party/gtest-parallel \
 			--no-same-owner --no-same-permissions
 
 USE_RC_SUBR=	znc
 
 USERS=		znc
 GROUPS=		znc
 
 PORTDOCS=	README.md
 SUB_FILES=	pkg-message
 
 CMAKE_ON=	WANT_ICU \
 		WANT_IPV6 \
 		WANT_OPENSSL \
 		WANT_PYTHON \
 		WANT_SWIG
 CMAKE_OFF=	WANT_ARGON
 CMAKE_ARGS=	-DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=${OPENSSLBASE} \
 		-DWANT_PYTHON_VERSION:STRING=python-${PYTHON_VER}
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		CYRUS DOCS NLS PERL TCL
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	PERL
 OPTIONS_SUB=		yes
 
 CYRUS_DESC=		Cyrus SASL module
 PERL_DESC=		Perl scripting module
 PYTHON_DESC=		Python scripting module
 TCL_DESC=		Tcl scripting module
 
 CYRUS_LIB_DEPENDS=	libsasl2.so:security/cyrus-sasl2
 CYRUS_CMAKE_BOOL=	WANT_CYRUS
 
 NLS_LIB_DEPENDS=	libboost_locale.so:devel/boost-libs
 NLS_USES=		gettext
 NLS_CMAKE_BOOL=		WANT_I18N
 
 PERL_USE=		perl5=run
 PERL_CMAKE_BOOL=	WANT_PERL WANT_SWIG
 
 TCL_USES=		tcl
 TCL_CMAKE_BOOL=		WANT_TCL
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|python3|python${PYTHON_VER}|g' \
 		${WRKSRC}/znc-buildmod.cmake.in
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/${PORTDOCS} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 
 post-install-NLS-off:
 	@${RM} -r ${STAGEDIR}${DATADIR}/translations
 
 post-install:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${ETCDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/irc/znc/distinfo b/irc/znc/distinfo
index a04c801f1e69..95a53f09b984 100644
--- a/irc/znc/distinfo
+++ b/irc/znc/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1751491897
+TIMESTAMP = 1768648916
 SHA256 (znc-1.10.1.tar.gz) = 4e6e76851dbf2606185972b53ec5decad68fe53b63a56e4df8b8b3c0a6c46800
 SIZE (znc-1.10.1.tar.gz) = 2310976
+SHA256 (49af1c8d53031e83877d3a378682dee9b834123b.patch) = 450ad462329d444c4e6eee594fc0f45fb278c19c9f65b25db31ee6b588d60c2d
+SIZE (49af1c8d53031e83877d3a378682dee9b834123b.patch) = 5309
diff --git a/irc/znc/files/patch-swig b/irc/znc/files/patch-swig
deleted file mode 100644
index 06ac2607fd95..000000000000
--- a/irc/znc/files/patch-swig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- modules/modpython/codegen.pl.orig	2025-07-01 21:17:15 UTC
-+++ modules/modpython/codegen.pl
-@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ namespace {
- #if PY_VERSION_HEX>=0x03000000
- 						assert(0); /* Should never reach here in Python 3 */
- #endif
--						*cptr = SWIG_Python_str_AsChar(obj);
-+						PyObject *bytes = NULL;
-+						*cptr = (char *)SWIG_PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize(obj, NULL, &bytes);
- 					}
- 				}
- 				if (psize) *psize = len + 1;