diff --git a/net-mgmt/librenms/Makefile b/net-mgmt/librenms/Makefile
index 500ae47a7216..320d04284a2f 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/librenms/Makefile
+++ b/net-mgmt/librenms/Makefile
@@ -1,213 +1,216 @@
 PORTNAME=	librenms
-PORTVERSION=	23.4.0
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTVERSION=	23.5.0
 PORTEPOCH=	1
 CATEGORIES=	net-mgmt
 MASTER_SITES=	LOCAL/dvl:vendor
 DISTFILES=	${PORTNAME}-vendor-${DISTVERSIONPREFIX}${DISTVERSION}${DISTVERSIONSUFFIX}${EXTRACT_SUFX}:vendor
 
 MAINTAINER=	dvl@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Autodiscovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring
 WWW=		https://www.librenms.org
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 
 IGNORE_WITH_PHP=	82
 
 # perhaps we also need python-memcache python-mysqldb
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${LOCALBASE}/share/pear/Net/IPv4.php:net/pear-Net_IPv4@${PHP_FLAVOR} \
 		${LOCALBASE}/share/pear/Net/IPv6.php:net/pear-Net_IPv6@${PHP_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pymysql>0:databases/py-pymysql@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}python-dotenv>0:www/py-python-dotenv@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		bash:shells/bash \
 		dot:graphics/graphviz \
 		rrdtool:databases/rrdtool \
 		snmpget:net-mgmt/net-snmp \
 		sudo:security/sudo
 
 USES=		cpe php python shebangfix
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 USE_PHP=	ctype curl dom fileinfo filter gd ldap mbstring \
-		mysqli pdo pdo_mysql phar posix session simplexml snmp \
+		mysqli pdo pdo_mysql phar posix readline session simplexml snmp \
 		sockets tokenizer xml xmlwriter zip
 USE_RC_SUBR=	librenms
 
-SHEBANG_FILES=	../${PORTNAME}-vendor-${PORTVERSION}/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/swiftmailer_generate_mimes_config.php \
-		../${PORTNAME}-vendor-${PORTVERSION}/tecnickcom/tcpdf/tools/tcpdf_addfont.php \
+SHEBANG_FILES=	../${PORTNAME}-vendor-${PORTVERSION}/tecnickcom/tcpdf/tools/tcpdf_addfont.php \
 		poller-wrapper.py poller.php scripts/auth_test.php \
 		scripts/check_requirements.py \
 		scripts/dynamic_check_requirements.py scripts/github-remove \
 		scripts/ifAlias \
 		scripts/Migration/Standard_Conversion/convert_no_xml.sh \
 		scripts/Migration/Standard_Conversion/destwork_no_xml.sh \
 		scripts/Migration/Standard_Conversion/mkdir.sh \
 		scripts/Migration/XML_Conversion/convert.sh \
 		scripts/Migration/XML_Conversion/destwork.sh \
 		scripts/Migration/XML_Conversion/mkdir.sh \
 		scripts/removespikes.php scripts/removespikes.pl \
 		scripts/watchmaillog/watchmaillog.pl
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 NO_BUILD=	yes
 
-SUB_FILES+=	pkg-message
+SUB_FILES+=	librenms.cron pkg-message
 SUB_LIST+=	GROUP="${WWWGRP}" \
 		PHP="${PHPBASE}/bin/php" \
 		PYTHON=${PYTHON_CMD} \
 		USER="${WWWOWN}" \
 		WWWDIR="${WWWDIR}"
 
 USERS=		www
 
 PORTDOCS=	*
 PORTEXAMPLES=	snmpd.conf.example
 
 DBDIR=		/var/db/${PORTNAME}
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		DOCS EXAMPLES FPING IPMITOOL LIBVIRT MYSQLD NAGPLUGINS \
 			NMAP WMIC X11
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	FPING IPMITOOL LIBVIRT NAGPLUGINS NMAP PYPOLLER WMIC
 
 FPING_DESC=	Enable fping support ping monitoring
 IPMITOOL_DESC=	Enable support for monitoring hardware IPMI
 MYSQLD_DESC=	Use local MySQL server
 WMIC_DESC=	Enable support for WMI polling
 
 FPING_RUN_DEPENDS=	fping:net/fping
 IPMITOOL_RUN_DEPENDS=	ipmitool:sysutils/ipmitool
 LIBVIRT_RUN_DEPENDS=	virsh:devel/libvirt
 MYSQLD_USES=		mysql:server
 MYSQLD_USES_OFF=	mysql:client
 NAGPLUGINS_RUN_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/libexec/nagios/check_nagios:net-mgmt/nagios-plugins
 NMAP_RUN_DEPENDS=	nmap:security/nmap
 WMIC_RUN_DEPENDS=	wmic:net-mgmt/wmi-client
 X11_RUN_DEPENDS=	mtr:net/mtr
 X11_RUN_DEPENDS_OFF=	mtr:net/mtr-nox11
 X11_USES=		magick:6
 X11_USES_OFF=		magick:6,nox11
 
-_ROOT_FILES=		addhost.php adduser.php alerts.php artisan \
+_ROOT_FILES=		addhost.php alerts.php artisan \
 			billing-calculate.php check-services.php composer.json \
 			composer.lock config.php.default config_to_json.php \
 			cronic daily.php delhost.php discovery-wrapper.py \
 			discovery.php dist-pollers.php irc.php \
 			librenms-service.py mkdocs.yml pbin.sh phpunit.xml \
 			ping.php poll-billing.php poller.php poller-wrapper.py \
 			renamehost.php snmp-scan.py snmptrap.php syslog.php \
 			validate.php
 _SCRIPT_FILES=		daily.sh lnms
 # _RELEASE_TIMESTAMP is used for a patch inside the vendor code
 # it represents the release date via: git show --pretty='%H|%ct' -s 1.42.01
 # It sits here so you remember to update it with each release
-_RELEASE_TIMESTAMP=	1680825172
+_RELEASE_TIMESTAMP=	1684510339
 _ROOT_DIRS=		LibreNMS app bootstrap config database doc html \
 			includes licenses mibs misc resources routes scripts \
 			sql-schema tests
 _DOCS=			AUTHORS.md CHANGELOG.md CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE.txt \
 			README.md
 
 # these are directories which require a generic @DIR entry in pkg-plist
 _STORAGE_DIRS=	app app/public debugbar framework framework/cache \
 		framework/cache/data framework/sessions framework/testing \
 		framework/views logs
 # these are directories which require a generic @DIR entry in pkg-plist
 _OTHER_DIRS=	database/seeders/config html/plugins html/js/lang \
 		resources/views/overview/custom tests/Browser/console \
 		tests/Browser/screenshots \
 		vendor/librenms/laravel-vue-i18n-generator/tests/output \
 		vendor/symfony/string/Resources/bin
 
+
 post-patch:
 	${REINPLACE_CMD}    's|%%LOCALBASE%%|${LOCALBASE}|g'                  ${WRKSRC}/LibreNMS/Validations/Php.php
 	${REINPLACE_CMD}    's|%%LOCALBASE%%|${LOCALBASE}|g'                  ${WRKSRC}/LibreNMS/Util/Version.php
 	${REINPLACE_CMD}    's|%%PORTVERSION%%|${PORTVERSION}|g'              ${WRKSRC}/LibreNMS/Util/Version.php
 	${REINPLACE_CMD}    's|%%RELEASE_TIMESTAMP%%|${_RELEASE_TIMESTAMP}|g' ${WRKSRC}/LibreNMS/Util/Version.php
 	${REINPLACE_CMD}    's|%%LOCALBASE%%|${LOCALBASE}|g'                  ${WRKSRC}/includes/html/output/capture.inc.php
 	${REINPLACE_CMD}    's|%%LOCALBASE%%|${LOCALBASE}|g'                  ${WRKSRC}/config.php.default
 	${REINPLACE_CMD}    's|%%LOCALBASE%%|${LOCALBASE}|g'                  ${WRKSRC}/poller-wrapper.py
 	${RM} ${WRKSRC}/LibreNMS/Validations/Updates.php
 	${RM} -rf ${WRKSRC}/logs
 
 do-install:
-	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}
+	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${PREFIX}/etc/cron.d
 .for dir in ${_ROOT_DIRS}
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/${dir}
 	(cd ${WRKSRC}/${dir} && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} . ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/${dir})
 .endfor
 .for f in ${_ROOT_FILES}
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/${f} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}
 .endfor
 .for f in ${_SCRIPT_FILES}
 	${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ${WRKSRC}/${f} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}
 .endfor
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/vendor
 	(cd ${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}-vendor-${PORTVERSION} && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} . ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/vendor)
 
 # As of 1.66_1, the package installs bootstrap/cache
 # This was previously left to the code to populate.
 # That causese problems when the code doesn't do that update.
 	${MV} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/vendor/bootstrap-cache/* ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/bootstrap/cache/
 	${RM} -rf ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/vendor/bootstrap-cache
 
 # similarly with html/js/lang
 	${MV} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/vendor/html-js-lang/* ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/html/js/lang/
 	${RM} -rf ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/vendor/html-js-lang
 
 # Make daily.sh executable
 #	${CHMOD} 0755 ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/daily.sh
 # lnms does not fall into any other +x category
 #	${CHMOD} 0755 ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/lnms
 # Files in scripts dir should be executable
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}/scripts -type f -exec ${CHMOD} +x {} \;
 # Ensure PHP and Python scripts are executable
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR} -type f -name '*.py' -or -type f -name \
 	       '*.php' -exec ${CHMOD} +x {} \;
 # these values should be outside the www tree now
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/var/log/${PORTNAME}
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DBDIR}
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DBDIR}/storage
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/var/run/${PORTNAME}
 	(cd ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR} && ${LN} -s ../../../..${DBDIR}/storage)
 
 do-install-DOCS-on:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${DOCSDIR}
 .for f in ${_DOCS}
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/${f} ${STAGEDIR}/${DOCSDIR}
 .endfor
 	cd ${WRKSRC}/doc && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} . ${STAGEDIR}/${DOCSDIR}
 
 do-install-EXAMPLES-on:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${EXAMPLESDIR}
 .for f in ${PORTEXAMPLES}
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/${f} ${STAGEDIR}/${EXAMPLESDIR}
 .endfor
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} -s ${STAGEDIR}${WWWDIR} -type f '(' -name '*.orig' -or -name '*.bak' -or -name '.gitignore' ')' -delete
 	${FIND} -s ${STAGEDIR}${WWWDIR} -not -type d | ${SORT} | \
 		${SED} -e 's#^${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/##' >> ${TMPPLIST}
+	${INSTALL_DATA}	${WRKDIR}/librenms.cron ${STAGEDIR}/${PREFIX}/etc/cron.d/librenms
 
 # we do this file separately because it needs a different chmod/chown
 # it will eventually contains secrets
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/.env.example ${STAGEDIR}/${WWWDIR}
-	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(www,www,0775) ${DBDIR}/storage" >> ${TMPPLIST}
-	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(www,www,0775) ${DBDIR}" >> ${TMPPLIST}
+	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(www,www,0775) ${DBDIR}/storage"     >> ${TMPPLIST}
+	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(www,www,0775) ${DBDIR}"             >> ${TMPPLIST}
 	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(www,www,0775) /var/log/${PORTNAME}" >> ${TMPPLIST}
 	${ECHO_CMD} "@(root,www,0750) ${WWWDIR}/.env.example" >> ${TMPPLIST}
 
 	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(www,www,0775) ${WWWDIR}/bootstrap/cache" >> ${TMPPLIST}
-	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(www,www,0775) /var/run/${PORTNAME}" >> ${TMPPLIST}
+	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(www,www,0775) /var/run/${PORTNAME}"      >> ${TMPPLIST}
 .for f in ${_STORAGE_DIRS}
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${DBDIR}/storage/${f}
 	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(root,www,0775) ${DBDIR}/storage/${f}" >> ${TMPPLIST}
 .endfor
 .for f in ${_OTHER_DIRS}
 	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir(root,www,0775) ${WWWDIR}/${f}" >> ${TMPPLIST}
 .endfor
 
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/newsyslog.conf.d
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${FILESDIR}/newsyslog.conf.sample ${STAGEDIR}/${PREFIX}/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/librenms.conf.sample
 	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir etc/newsyslog.conf.d" >> ${TMPPLIST}
+	${ECHO_CMD} "@dir etc/cron.d"           >> ${TMPPLIST}
+	${ECHO_CMD} "etc/cron.d/librenms"       >> ${TMPPLIST}
+
 	${ECHO_CMD} "@sample etc/newsyslog.conf.d/librenms.conf.sample" >> ${TMPPLIST}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net-mgmt/librenms/distinfo b/net-mgmt/librenms/distinfo
index 0055ff799fa6..c5f066d3cc59 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/librenms/distinfo
+++ b/net-mgmt/librenms/distinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1681134245
-SHA256 (librenms-vendor-23.4.0.tar.gz) = 0ca7b435dc20155a63f9e5433065c890fba457012cb44606f7aee176708b5874
-SIZE (librenms-vendor-23.4.0.tar.gz) = 27764425
-SHA256 (librenms-librenms-23.4.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 359a98c83816d2f5ebd66a7564c5851496fe8ba53cd3d64e0e9286bca733572e
-SIZE (librenms-librenms-23.4.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 57271787
+TIMESTAMP = 1684511309
+SHA256 (librenms-vendor-23.5.0.tar.gz) = 5ce5fcd3eec1117b367c19b9f508fb6b730d3539795bb33d062a76bfbc9fe028
+SIZE (librenms-vendor-23.5.0.tar.gz) = 27451839
+SHA256 (librenms-librenms-23.5.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 71a2b68abf07293976421941fddcf83eb144a77618d6d4cb02fbe363fe00b5cc
+SIZE (librenms-librenms-23.5.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 57634953
diff --git a/net-mgmt/librenms/files/librenms.cron.in b/net-mgmt/librenms/files/librenms.cron.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..71076ed33f0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-mgmt/librenms/files/librenms.cron.in
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# This scripts run every minute
+#
+# Until it runs, validate.php will show: 
+#
+# [FAIL]  Scheduler is not running
+# [FIX]: 
+#	cp /opt/librenms/dist/librenms-scheduler.service /opt/librenms/dist/librenms-scheduler.timer /etc/systemd/system/
+# systemctl enable librenms-scheduler.timer
+# systemctl start librenms-scheduler.timer
+#
+# If you still see the above issue after this cron job is in place,
+# remove the redirecdtion below and get the email produced by this cron job.
+# It should contain information for debugging the problem.
+#
+
+* * * * * www	cd %%PREFIX%%/www/librenms/ && php ./artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1