diff --git a/graphics/xournalpp/Makefile b/graphics/xournalpp/Makefile
index 682def1fd7d4..3bc74b109cca 100644
--- a/graphics/xournalpp/Makefile
+++ b/graphics/xournalpp/Makefile
@@ -1,36 +1,37 @@
 PORTNAME=	xournalpp
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 DISTVERSION=	1.3.6
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	graphics
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support
 WWW=		https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BROKEN_armv7=	compilation fails: error: redefinition of 'getGVariantValue<unsigned int>': see https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/issues/5873
 BROKEN_i386=	compilation fails: error: redefinition of 'getGVariantValue<unsigned int>': see https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/issues/5873
 BROKEN_powerpc=	compilation fails: error: redefinition of 'getGVariantValue<unsigned int>': see https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/issues/5873
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	help2man:misc/help2man
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libgtksourceview-4.so:x11-toolkits/gtksourceview4 \
 		libharfbuzz.so:print/harfbuzz \
 		libpoppler-glib.so:graphics/poppler-glib \
 		libportaudio.so:audio/portaudio \
 		libqpdf.so:print/qpdf \
 		libsndfile.so:audio/libsndfile \
 		libzip.so:archivers/libzip
 
 USES=		cmake compiler:c++11-lang gettext-tools gnome lua pkgconfig tex xorg desktop-file-utils shared-mime-info
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 USE_GNOME=	atk cairo gdkpixbuf glib20 gtk30 librsvg2 libxml2 pango
 USE_XORG=	x11 xext xi
 USE_TEX=	latex:build
 
 LDFLAGS+=	-lexecinfo
 
 # CAVEAT: crashes when built with gcc: https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/issues/851
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/graphics/xournalpp/files/patch-src_util_PathUtil.cpp b/graphics/xournalpp/files/patch-src_util_PathUtil.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..45a940838217
--- /dev/null
+++ b/graphics/xournalpp/files/patch-src_util_PathUtil.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- src/util/PathUtil.cpp.orig	2026-07-21 03:37:42 UTC
++++ src/util/PathUtil.cpp
+@@ -100,7 +100,11 @@ auto Util::getExePath() -> fs::path {
+ #define PATH_MAX 4096
+ #endif
+     std::array<char, PATH_MAX> result{};
++#if !defined(__FreeBSD__)
+     ssize_t count = readlink("/proc/self/exe", result.data(), PATH_MAX);
++#else
++    ssize_t count = readlink("/proc/curproc/file", result.data(), PATH_MAX);
++#endif
+     return fs::path{std::string(result.data(), as_unsigned(std::max(ssize_t{0}, count)))}.parent_path();
+ }
+ #endif