diff --git a/devel/sord/Makefile b/devel/sord/Makefile
index 225cd604b630..32c887f4f7f7 100644
--- a/devel/sord/Makefile
+++ b/devel/sord/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
 PORTNAME=	sord
-DISTVERSION=	0.16.16
+DISTVERSION=	0.16.18
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	http://download.drobilla.net/
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Lightweight C library for storing RDF data in memory
 WWW=		https://drobilla.net/category/sord/
 
 LICENSE=	ISCL
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libpcre2-8.so:devel/pcre2 \
 		libserd-0.so:devel/serd \
 		libzix-0.so:devel/zix
 
 USES=		meson pkgconfig python:build tar:xz
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 MESON_ARGS=	-Ddocs=disabled \
 		--mandir=${PREFIX}/share/man
 PLIST_SUB=	VERSION=${DISTVERSION}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/sord/distinfo b/devel/sord/distinfo
index 967ab6c73aa9..fe2ae010239c 100644
--- a/devel/sord/distinfo
+++ b/devel/sord/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1698133751
-SHA256 (sord-0.16.16.tar.xz) = 257f876d756143da02ee84c9260af93559d6249dd87f317e70ab5fffcc975fd0
-SIZE (sord-0.16.16.tar.xz) = 107148
+TIMESTAMP = 1737395359
+SHA256 (sord-0.16.18.tar.xz) = 4f398b635894491a4774b1498959805a08e11734c324f13d572dea695b13d3b3
+SIZE (sord-0.16.18.tar.xz) = 102300
diff --git a/devel/sord/files/patch-meson.build b/devel/sord/files/patch-meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 998dc8663f69..000000000000
--- a/devel/sord/files/patch-meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-Manpages are available even with -Ddocs=disabled
-
---- meson.build.orig	2022-09-09 03:08:05 UTC
-+++ meson.build
-@@ -128,10 +128,8 @@ if not get_option('tools').disabled()
-     meson.override_find_program('sord_validate', sord_validate)
-   endif
- 
--  if not get_option('docs').disabled()
-     install_man(files('doc/sordi.1'))
-     install_man(files('doc/sord_validate.1'))
--  endif
- endif
- 
- if not get_option('docs').disabled()