diff --git a/devel/athens/Makefile b/devel/athens/Makefile
index 0ec14b68b649..44c4b8478557 100644
--- a/devel/athens/Makefile
+++ b/devel/athens/Makefile
@@ -1,38 +1,37 @@
 PORTNAME=	athens
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	0.16.2
-PORTREVISION=	5
+DISTVERSION=	0.17.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Proxy server for the Go Modules download API
 WWW=		https://github.com/gomods/athens
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 USES=		go:modules
 USE_RC_SUBR=	${PORTNAME}
 
 GO_MODULE=	github.com/gomods/${PORTNAME}
 GO_TARGET=	./cmd/proxy
 GO_BUILDFLAGS=	-ldflags " \
 		-X github.com/gomods/${PORTNAME}/pkg/build.version=${DISTVERSION} \
 		-X github.com/gomods/${PORTNAME}/pkg/build.buildDate=${BUILD_DATE}"
 
 SUB_LIST=	ATHENS_USER=${USERS} \
 		ATHENS_GROUP=${GROUPS}
 
 USERS=		${PORTNAME}
 GROUPS=		${PORTNAME}
 
-BUILD_DATE=	2026-02-01-00:00:00-UTC
+BUILD_DATE=	2026-04-14-00:00:00-UTC
 
 do-install:
 	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKDIR}/bin/proxy ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/${PORTNAME}
 
 post-install:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${ETCDIR}
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${BUILD_WRKSRC}/config.dev.toml ${STAGEDIR}${ETCDIR}/athens.toml.sample
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/athens/distinfo b/devel/athens/distinfo
index 99a3698d4ce9..e81c4cebf243 100644
--- a/devel/athens/distinfo
+++ b/devel/athens/distinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1770124209
-SHA256 (go/devel_athens/athens-v0.16.2/v0.16.2.mod) = 21579a23032fae25837589246e6945d975a4dcef252903e4d91ba7fcd10807c3
-SIZE (go/devel_athens/athens-v0.16.2/v0.16.2.mod) = 9863
-SHA256 (go/devel_athens/athens-v0.16.2/v0.16.2.zip) = 5bf84ed809d9c29abe864533c303f8c0a9206c960e2781621d8d4bbd20de0585
-SIZE (go/devel_athens/athens-v0.16.2/v0.16.2.zip) = 4251059
+TIMESTAMP = 1776326852
+SHA256 (go/devel_athens/athens-v0.17.0/v0.17.0.mod) = 1fcf9cb522fe7222eefc17cd26caef9b8e38422a853886c9882cf9087352bf79
+SIZE (go/devel_athens/athens-v0.17.0/v0.17.0.mod) = 10234
+SHA256 (go/devel_athens/athens-v0.17.0/v0.17.0.zip) = 3811c734685bdf15d5d84f9e9478bde586229e26de6b0932768a821a0f247177
+SIZE (go/devel_athens/athens-v0.17.0/v0.17.0.zip) = 4215597
diff --git a/devel/athens/files/patch-vendor_github.com_mattn_go-ieproxy_proxyMiddleman__unix.go b/devel/athens/files/patch-vendor_github.com_mattn_go-ieproxy_proxyMiddleman__unix.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 95e9f1d50b5e..000000000000
--- a/devel/athens/files/patch-vendor_github.com_mattn_go-ieproxy_proxyMiddleman__unix.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- vendor/github.com/mattn/go-ieproxy/proxyMiddleman_unix.go.orig	2020-08-17 02:41:36 UTC
-+++ vendor/github.com/mattn/go-ieproxy/proxyMiddleman_unix.go
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--//+build darwin unix linux
-+//+build darwin unix linux freebsd
- 
- package ieproxy
-