diff --git a/benchmarks/iperf3/Makefile b/benchmarks/iperf3/Makefile
index adf55ff2a8f4..6d04ba21cc79 100644
--- a/benchmarks/iperf3/Makefile
+++ b/benchmarks/iperf3/Makefile
@@ -1,40 +1,40 @@
 PORTNAME=	iperf
-DISTVERSION=	3.17.1
+DISTVERSION=	3.18
 CATEGORIES=	benchmarks
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/esnet/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${DISTVERSION}/ \
 		https://downloads.es.net/pub/${PORTNAME}/
 PKGNAMESUFFIX=	3
 
 MAINTAINER=	bmah@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Improved tool to measure TCP and UDP bandwidth
 WWW=		https://software.es.net/iperf/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE MIT
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 
 USES=		cpe libtool ssl
 CPE_VENDOR=	iperf_project
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 PORTDOCS=	README.md RELNOTES.md
 
 # Set ${DOCSDIR} to avoid conflict with benchmarks/iperf
 DOCSDIR=	${PREFIX}/share/doc/${PKGBASE}
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS STATIC
 OPTIONS_SUB=	yes
 
 STATIC_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	static
 
 post-patch:
 # Don't build stuff that we're not going to install.  Among other
 # things this means we're not going to try to build profiled objects
 # and/or executables.
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e '/^PROGRAMS /s/\$$(noinst_PROGRAMS)//' ${WRKSRC}/src/Makefile.in
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	(cd ${WRKSRC} && ${INSTALL_DATA} ${PORTDOCS} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR})
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/benchmarks/iperf3/distinfo b/benchmarks/iperf3/distinfo
index 4bf7c130c6e3..f0309d5edd9e 100644
--- a/benchmarks/iperf3/distinfo
+++ b/benchmarks/iperf3/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1715628449
-SHA256 (iperf-3.17.1.tar.gz) = 84404ca8431b595e86c473d8f23d8bb102810001f15feaf610effd3b318788aa
-SIZE (iperf-3.17.1.tar.gz) = 670547
+TIMESTAMP = 1734136688
+SHA256 (iperf-3.18.tar.gz) = c0618175514331e766522500e20c94bfb293b4424eb27d7207fb427b88d20bab
+SIZE (iperf-3.18.tar.gz) = 688037