diff --git a/biology/abyss/Makefile b/biology/abyss/Makefile
index d023c7d5b8b6..8458e069649a 100644
--- a/biology/abyss/Makefile
+++ b/biology/abyss/Makefile
@@ -1,51 +1,51 @@
 PORTNAME=	abyss
-DISTVERSION=	2.3.5
-PORTREVISION=	2
+DISTVERSION=	2.3.7
 CATEGORIES=	biology
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Assembly By Short Sequences: parallel, paired-end sequence assembler
 WWW=		https://www.bcgsc.ca/resources/software/abyss
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BROKEN_i386=	result of comparison of constant 18446744073709551615 with expression of type 'size_t', see https://github.com/bcgsc/abyss/issues/310
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/include/boost/version.hpp:devel/boost-libs \
 		ghc:lang/ghc \
 		pandoc:textproc/hs-pandoc # pandoc is required just for one man page: abyss-sealer
-LIB_DEPENDS=	libffi.so:devel/libffi \
+LIB_DEPENDS=	libbtllib.so:biology/btllib \
+		libffi.so:devel/libffi \
 		libgmp.so:math/gmp \
 		libmpich.so:net/mpich # binaries aren't linked with libmpich.so for some reason
 RUN_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash \
 		gmake:devel/gmake
 
 USES=		autoreconf compiler:c++11-lang gmake iconv:wchar_t localbase:ldflags shebangfix sqlite
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	bcgsc
 
 SHEBANG_FILES=	bin/${PORTNAME}-* DataBase/abyss-db-txt
 SHEBANG_LANG=	make
 make_OLD_CMD=	/usr/bin/make
 make_CMD=	${PREFIX}/bin/gmake
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--without-sparsehash # configure fails to find std::hash, reported to the ML: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/trans-abyss/SZDBKR5bKxs
 
 TEST_TARGET=	check # tests fail to compile, see https://github.com/bcgsc/abyss/issues/453
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 
 PORTDOCS=	*
 
 PORTSCOUT=	limit:^[0-9\.]*$$ # to ignore alpha-numeric tags
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if ${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && ( ${OSVERSION} >= 1400079 || ( ${OSVERSION} >= 1302505 && ${OSVERSION} < 1400000 ))
 CFLAGS+=	-Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable
 .endif
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/biology/abyss/distinfo b/biology/abyss/distinfo
index 82cc32c0fa85..f27d6fc7904a 100644
--- a/biology/abyss/distinfo
+++ b/biology/abyss/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1659120367
-SHA256 (bcgsc-abyss-2.3.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 28fb7d75faa2599c3c4d2d2c29d320612ca1539f1772728d1acdfffb4b82dee5
-SIZE (bcgsc-abyss-2.3.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 3511232
+TIMESTAMP = 1689963359
+SHA256 (bcgsc-abyss-2.3.7_GH0.tar.gz) = eb1d814621ad2accaf19ea009453af891b29663de9f96c0da32c83fbfb71b85e
+SIZE (bcgsc-abyss-2.3.7_GH0.tar.gz) = 1323221
diff --git a/biology/abyss/files/patch-RResolver_btllib_include_btllib_status.hpp b/biology/abyss/files/patch-RResolver_btllib_include_btllib_status.hpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 01427a36b2ac..000000000000
--- a/biology/abyss/files/patch-RResolver_btllib_include_btllib_status.hpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- RResolver/btllib/include/btllib/status.hpp.orig	2022-07-29 18:56:25 UTC
-+++ RResolver/btllib/include/btllib/status.hpp
-@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ get_strerror()
-   char buf[buflen];
- // POSIX and GNU implementation of strerror_r differ, even in function signature
- // and so we need to check which one is used
--#if __APPLE__ ||                                                               \
-+#if __APPLE__ || defined(__FreeBSD__) ||                                                    \
-   ((_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600) && !_GNU_SOURCE)
-   strerror_r(errno, buf, buflen);
-   return buf;