diff --git a/sysutils/patchelf/Makefile b/sysutils/patchelf/Makefile
index e1f817468610..8f4def5268bf 100644
--- a/sysutils/patchelf/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/patchelf/Makefile
@@ -1,22 +1,23 @@
 PORTNAME=	patchelf
-DISTVERSION=	0.14.3
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	0.18.0
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/NixOS/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${DISTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Utility to modify the dynamic linker
 WWW=		https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 USES=		autoreconf compiler:c++11-lang gmake tar:bz2
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX=${PREFIX}/share
 TEST_TARGET=	check
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 
+# tests as of 0.18.0: 2 tests fail, see https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/issues/584
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/sysutils/patchelf/distinfo b/sysutils/patchelf/distinfo
index 87714497949a..386b73737f1e 100644
--- a/sysutils/patchelf/distinfo
+++ b/sysutils/patchelf/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1644259479
-SHA256 (patchelf-0.14.3.tar.bz2) = a017ec3d2152a19fd969c0d87b3f8b43e32a66e4ffabdc8767a56062b9aec270
-SIZE (patchelf-0.14.3.tar.bz2) = 181189
+TIMESTAMP = 1737428134
+SHA256 (patchelf-0.18.0.tar.bz2) = 1952b2a782ba576279c211ee942e341748fdb44997f704dd53def46cd055470b
+SIZE (patchelf-0.18.0.tar.bz2) = 423290
diff --git a/sysutils/patchelf/pkg-plist b/sysutils/patchelf/pkg-plist
index 778a86f1ea78..da4196932b55 100644
--- a/sysutils/patchelf/pkg-plist
+++ b/sysutils/patchelf/pkg-plist
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 bin/patchelf
-share/man/man1/patchelf.1.gz
 %%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/README.md
+share/man/man1/patchelf.1.gz
+share/zsh/site-functions/_patchelf