diff --git a/lang/lua55/Makefile b/lang/lua55/Makefile
index 271eb1477e3c..113f0d82468a 100644
--- a/lang/lua55/Makefile
+++ b/lang/lua55/Makefile
@@ -1,145 +1,145 @@
 PORTNAME=	lua
-DISTVERSION=	5.5.0
+DISTVERSION=	5.5.1
 CATEGORIES=	lang
 MASTER_SITES=	https://www.lua.org/ftp/
 PKGNAMESUFFIX=	${LUA_VER_STR}
 
 MAINTAINER=	tagattie@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language
 WWW=		https://www.lua.org/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
 USES=		cpe lua:core,55
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 # using the "bsd" target rather than "freebsd" saves patching out the
 # assumption of using base libedit in order to make it configurable. "bsd"
 # is "generic" plus the POSIX and DLOPEN options, plus -Wl,-E at link time;
 # it doesn't set CC either, which makes it easier for us to control that too.
 ALL_TARGET=	bsd
 
 LUA_LIB_STATIC=	liblua-${LUA_VER}.a
 LUA_LIB_SHARED=	liblua-${LUA_VER}.so
 LUA_PC_FILE=	lua-${LUA_VER}.pc
 
 CFLAGS+=	-fPIC
 # 2019-01-25: -pthread in LIBS is a work around for the following bug:
 # https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235211
 LIBS+=		-pthread
 
 WITHOUT_NO_STRICT_ALIASING=	yes
 
 MAKE_ARGS+=	CC="${CC}" \
 		CMCFLAGS="" \
 		MYCFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} ${CFLAGS}" \
 		MYLDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" \
 		MYLIBS="${LIBS}" \
 		LUA_T=${LUA_CMD} \
 		LUAC_T=${LUAC_CMD} \
 		LUA_A=${LUA_LIB_STATIC} \
 		LUA_SO=${LUA_LIB_SHARED} \
 		LUA_SONAME=${LUA_LIB_SHARED} \
 		TO_BIN="${LUA_CMD} ${LUAC_CMD}" \
 		TO_LIB="${LUA_LIB_SHARED} ${LUA_LIB_STATIC}" \
 		INSTALL_TOP=${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX} \
 		INSTALL_INC=${STAGEDIR}${LUA_INCDIR} \
 		INSTALL_EXEC="${INSTALL_PROGRAM}"
 
 # Source, destination, and filenames to copy for the DOCS option
 # (automatically added to pkg-plist if DOCS is set)
 # We override DOCSDIR to get a per-version subdir.
 # We put the docs for Lua proper in a lua/ subdir of the version subdir
 # so that ports for Lua modules can use the version subdir too without
 # making a mess.
 DOCSDIR=	${LUA_DOCSDIR}
 BUILD_WRKDOC=	${WRKSRC}/doc
 
 SUB_FILES=	${LUA_PC_FILE}
 SUB_LIST=	version=${PORTVERSION} \
 		includedir=${LUA_INCDIR} \
 		libdir=${LUA_LIBDIR} \
 		soname=lua-${LUA_VER}
 
 BUILD_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/src
 
 PORTDOCS=	*
 
 # Options
 
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	LIBEDIT_DL
 
 OPTIONS_GROUP=		DOCSGRP DEBUGGRP
 OPTIONS_GROUP_DEBUGGRP=	ASSERT APICHECK
 OPTIONS_GROUP_DOCSGRP=	DOCS
 
 OPTIONS_SINGLE=		EDITGRP
 OPTIONS_SINGLE_EDITGRP=	EDITNONE LIBEDIT LIBEDIT_DL READLINE READLINE_DL
 
 # Option descriptions
 
 APICHECK_DESC=	Enable API checks
 ASSERT_DESC=	Enable interpreter assertions
 DEBUGGRP_DESC=	Debugging options
 
 DOCSGRP_DESC=	Documentation options
 DOCS_DESC=	Install language and API reference (HTML, ~400kB)
 
 EDITGRP_DESC=		Interactive command-line editing
 EDITNONE_DESC=		No command-line editing
 LIBEDIT_DESC=		Use libedit (breaks lcurses)
 LIBEDIT_DL_DESC=	Use dynamically loaded libedit (recommended)
 READLINE_DESC=		Use GNU Readline (breaks lcurses)
 READLINE_DL_DESC=	Use dynamically loaded GNU readline
 
 # Option implementations
 
 APICHECK_CPPFLAGS=	-DLUA_USE_APICHECK
 ASSERT_CPPFLAGS=	-DLUAI_ASSERT
 
 # EDITNONE currently requires no settings
 
 LIBEDIT_USES=		libedit
 LIBEDIT_CPPFLAGS=	-DLUA_USE_READLINE
 LIBEDIT_LIBS=		-ledit
 
 LIBEDIT_DL_USES=	libedit
 LIBEDIT_DL_CPPFLAGS=	-DLUA_USE_DLOPEN \
 			-DLUA_READLINELIB='\"${LOCALBASE}/lib/libedit.so\"'
 LIBEDIT_DL_EXTRA_PATCHES=${PATCHDIR}/extra-patch-dlopen
 
 READLINE_USES=		readline
 READLINE_CPPFLAGS=	-DLUA_USE_READLINE
 READLINE_LIBS=		-lreadline
 
 READLINE_DL_USES=	readline
 READLINE_DL_CPPFLAGS=	-DLUA_USE_DLOPEN \
 			-DLUA_READLINELIB='\"${LOCALBASE}/lib/libreadline.so\"'
 
 # end of option vars
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e "/LUA_ROOT/s,/usr/local,${LUA_PREFIX}," \
 		${WRKSRC}/src/luaconf.h
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e "s|man/man|share/man/man|g" \
 		${WRKSRC}/Makefile
 
 post-patch-LIBEDIT-on:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e "s,readline/,editline/,g ; \
 		/history\.h/d" ${WRKSRC}/src/lua.c
 
 post-install:
 	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/${LUA_LIB_SHARED}
 	${MV} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/man/man1/lua.1 \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/man/man1/${LUA_CMD}.1
 	${MV} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/man/man1/luac.1 \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/man/man1/${LUAC_CMD}.1
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKDIR}/${LUA_PC_FILE} \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	(cd ${BUILD_WRKDOC} && \
 		${COPYTREE_SHARE} . ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR} '-not -name *\.1')
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/lang/lua55/distinfo b/lang/lua55/distinfo
index 3413a4a73796..0f920adb9ad5 100644
--- a/lang/lua55/distinfo
+++ b/lang/lua55/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1778587320
-SHA256 (lua-5.5.0.tar.gz) = 57ccc32bbbd005cab75bcc52444052535af691789dba2b9016d5c50640d68b3d
-SIZE (lua-5.5.0.tar.gz) = 396950
+TIMESTAMP = 1786089486
+SHA256 (lua-5.5.1.tar.gz) = 1c4b4068d67061f2a2231ad2b5422e77acea1487ea9890f6320af614f4373dce
+SIZE (lua-5.5.1.tar.gz) = 398643
diff --git a/lang/lua55/files/extra-patch-dlopen b/lang/lua55/files/extra-patch-dlopen
index edfbfce1e868..6a4bcc428ef7 100644
--- a/lang/lua55/files/extra-patch-dlopen
+++ b/lang/lua55/files/extra-patch-dlopen
@@ -1,42 +1,43 @@
---- src/lua.c.orig	2025-12-15 10:44:40 UTC
+--- src/lua.c.orig	2026-08-07 07:59:17 UTC
 +++ src/lua.c
-@@ -498,18 +498,30 @@ static void lua_initreadline (lua_State *L) {
+@@ -513,18 +513,29 @@ static void lua_initreadline (lua_State *L) {
  #include <dlfcn.h>
  
  static void lua_initreadline (lua_State *L) {
 +  union {
 +    void *ptr;
 +    l_readlineT rlfunc;
 +    l_addhistT ahfunc;
 +    char **rlnamevar;
 +    int *icompvar;
 +  } u;
 +
-   void *lib = dlopen(LUA_READLINELIB, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_LOCAL);
--  if (lib == NULL)
-+  if (lib == NULL) {
-     lua_warning(L, "library '" LUA_READLINELIB "' not found", 0);
--  else {
+   const char *rllib = l_getenv(LUA_RLLIB_VAR);  /* name of readline library */
+   void *lib;  /* library handle */
+   if (rllib == NULL)  /* no environment variable? */
+     rllib = LUA_READLINELIB;  /* use default name */
+   lib = dlopen(rllib, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_LOCAL);
+   if (lib != NULL) {
 -    const char **name = cast(const char**, dlsym(lib, "rl_readline_name"));
 -    if (name != NULL)
 -      *name = "lua";
 -    l_readline = cast(l_readlineT, cast_func(dlsym(lib, "readline")));
 -    l_addhist = cast(l_addhistT, cast_func(dlsym(lib, "add_history")));
--    if (l_readline == NULL)
--      lua_warning(L, "unable to load 'readline'", 0);
-+    return;
+-    if (l_readline != NULL)  /* could load readline function? */
++    u.ptr = dlsym(lib, "readline");
++    l_readline = u.rlfunc;
++    u.ptr = dlsym(lib, "add_history");
++    l_addhist = u.ahfunc;
++    if ((u.ptr = dlsym(lib, "rl_readline_name")))
++      *u.rlnamevar = "lua";
++    if ((u.ptr = dlsym(lib, "rl_inhibit_completion")))
++      *u.icompvar = 1;
++    if (l_readline != NULL)
+       return;  /* everything ok */
+     /* else emit a warning */
    }
-+
-+  u.ptr = dlsym(lib, "readline");
-+  l_readline = u.rlfunc;
-+  u.ptr = dlsym(lib, "add_history");
-+  l_addhist = u.ahfunc;
-+  if ((u.ptr = dlsym(lib, "rl_readline_name")))
-+    *u.rlnamevar = "lua";
-+  if ((u.ptr = dlsym(lib, "rl_inhibit_completion")))
-+    *u.icompvar = 1;
-+  if (l_readline == NULL)
-+    lua_warning(L, "unable to load 'readline' from dynamic library", 0);
+@@ -791,4 +802,3 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) {
+   lua_close(L);
+   return (result && status == LUA_OK) ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
  }
- 
- #else		/* }{ */
+-