diff --git a/devel/libqcow/Makefile b/devel/libqcow/Makefile
index 92627fa4f7d9..820f5dd1aabe 100644
--- a/devel/libqcow/Makefile
+++ b/devel/libqcow/Makefile
@@ -1,28 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	libqcow
-DISTVERSION=	alpha-20221124
+DISTVERSION=	alpha-20231125
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/libyal/libqcow/releases/download/${PORTVERSION:E}/ \
 		LOCAL/antoine
 
 MAINTAINER=	antoine@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Library and tooling to access the QEMU Copy-On-Write image format
 WWW=		https://github.com/libyal/libqcow
 
 LICENSE=	LGPL3+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
+LIB_DEPENDS=	libcaes.so:security/libcaes
+
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
-CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--enable-python --with-openssl=no
+CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--enable-python --with-libcaes=${LOCALBASE} --with-openssl=no
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	PYTHON_CONFIG=${PYTHON_CMD}-config
 USES=		fuse libtool pathfix pkgconfig python
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION:E}
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	NLS
 
 NLS_USES=	gettext
 NLS_CONFIGURE_ON=	--with-libintl-prefix=${LOCALBASE}
 NLS_CONFIGURE_OFF=	--disable-nls
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/libqcow/distinfo b/devel/libqcow/distinfo
index 402d671282c5..20b2f6fece7c 100644
--- a/devel/libqcow/distinfo
+++ b/devel/libqcow/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1676997767
-SHA256 (libqcow-alpha-20221124.tar.gz) = b7fe98efa5eb0a4dd284228018356d7f22047d6a9d3fe795c9c05e7d4db9d742
-SIZE (libqcow-alpha-20221124.tar.gz) = 1590925
+TIMESTAMP = 1707838038
+SHA256 (libqcow-alpha-20231125.tar.gz) = 58d5f4c74b3a776e008195bb4d60b3dbb2cdf83481e65e4780f58aee5061cd55
+SIZE (libqcow-alpha-20231125.tar.gz) = 1561633