diff --git a/science/libaec/Makefile b/science/libaec/Makefile
index 79d6d61fad8a..dc65f35e99ed 100644
--- a/science/libaec/Makefile
+++ b/science/libaec/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,23 @@
 # Created by: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	libaec
 PORTVERSION=	1.0.4
-DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 CATEGORIES=	science
-MASTER_SITES=	https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/libaec/-/archive/v${PORTVERSION}/
+MASTER_SITES=	https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/libaec/uploads/ea0b7d197a950b0c110da8dfdecbb71f/
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Adaptive entropy coding library
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/Copyright.txt
 
-USES=		autoreconf libtool tar:bz2
+USES=		libtool
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 CONFLICTS_INSTALL=	hdf-szip
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/science/libaec/distinfo b/science/libaec/distinfo
index b1b69ba5f971..a3dfdc994876 100644
--- a/science/libaec/distinfo
+++ b/science/libaec/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1601996454
-SHA256 (libaec-v1.0.4.tar.bz2) = 97c2c3c0c325135168bc02acec45676d6aa0f17791481debd1fc04139c736bf3
-SIZE (libaec-v1.0.4.tar.bz2) = 2303274
+TIMESTAMP = 1612519105
+SHA256 (libaec-1.0.4.tar.gz) = f2b1b232083bd8beaf8a54a024225de3dd72a673a9bcdf8c3ba96c39483f4309
+SIZE (libaec-1.0.4.tar.gz) = 3120061