diff --git a/deskutils/xchm/Makefile b/deskutils/xchm/Makefile
index a3017a6e6754..b97f7318139c 100644
--- a/deskutils/xchm/Makefile
+++ b/deskutils/xchm/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	xchm
-PORTVERSION=	1.37
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTVERSION=	1.38
+PORTREVISION=	0
 CATEGORIES=	deskutils
 
 MAINTAINER=	dinoex@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Windows HTML Help (.chm) viewer for UNIX
 WWW=		https://github.com/rzvncj/xCHM
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libchm.so:misc/chmlib
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang desktop-file-utils localbase autoreconf
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	rzvncj
 GH_PROJECT=	xCHM
 USE_WX=		3.0+
 WX_CONF_ARGS=	absolute
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX=	${PREFIX}/share
 LDFLAGS+=	-lpthread
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	NLS
 OPTIONS_SUB=	yes
 NLS_USES=	gettext
 NLS_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	nls
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/deskutils/xchm/distinfo b/deskutils/xchm/distinfo
index ce5a33640f65..3dbde7eba132 100644
--- a/deskutils/xchm/distinfo
+++ b/deskutils/xchm/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1729758617
-SHA256 (rzvncj-xCHM-1.37_GH0.tar.gz) = 16d10b52bd98706c639866eebc30b904a963d10dc76ea7dc65fb20342e9f70a7
-SIZE (rzvncj-xCHM-1.37_GH0.tar.gz) = 647001
+TIMESTAMP = 1770701952
+SHA256 (rzvncj-xCHM-1.38_GH0.tar.gz) = f6db981faa426b29d432e0fcfc83fc5b6192972cd02fe9412b0348f425e9b60d
+SIZE (rzvncj-xCHM-1.38_GH0.tar.gz) = 647679
diff --git a/deskutils/xchm/files/patch-chmhtmlwindow.cpp b/deskutils/xchm/files/patch-chmhtmlwindow.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eeec0bd27d62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deskutils/xchm/files/patch-chmhtmlwindow.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- src/chmhtmlwindow.cpp.orig	2026-02-01 10:31:54 UTC
++++ src/chmhtmlwindow.cpp
+@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class CHMDropTarget : public wxFileDropTarget { (publi
+ 
+     bool OnDropFiles(wxCoord /* x */, wxCoord /* y */, const wxArrayString& filenames) override
+     {
+-        if (filenames.size() == 1 && filenames[0].Lower().ends_with(".chm")) {
++        if (filenames.size() == 1 && filenames[0].Lower().EndsWith(".chm")) {
+             _frame->LoadCHM(filenames[0]);
+             return true;
+         }