diff --git a/databases/mysqltuner/Makefile b/databases/mysqltuner/Makefile
index aa62986280be..8a05f57b56e1 100644
--- a/databases/mysqltuner/Makefile
+++ b/databases/mysqltuner/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 PORTNAME=	mysqltuner
-PORTVERSION=	2.5.2
+PORTVERSION=	2.6.0
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	databases
 
 MAINTAINER=	pi@FreeBSD.org
diff --git a/databases/mysqltuner/distinfo b/databases/mysqltuner/distinfo
index 4614fa950c6b..082ec1ca0bad 100644
--- a/databases/mysqltuner/distinfo
+++ b/databases/mysqltuner/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1710071437
-SHA256 (major-MySQLTuner-perl-v2.5.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 4923ca0a6184c6b3e77a98dd097f99cbdb3adaf334e45a9e4b5aa620cd83ae68
-SIZE (major-MySQLTuner-perl-v2.5.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 5132683
+TIMESTAMP = 1733426869
+SHA256 (major-MySQLTuner-perl-v2.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 9ba57ecc616c1791907c1e7befe593fee23315bcff0121adc13dbd62b2553a3c
+SIZE (major-MySQLTuner-perl-v2.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 5137050
diff --git a/databases/mysqltuner/files/patch-mysqltuner.pl b/databases/mysqltuner/files/patch-mysqltuner.pl
deleted file mode 100644
index 29ba8d4e50a3..000000000000
--- a/databases/mysqltuner/files/patch-mysqltuner.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
---- mysqltuner.pl.orig	2024-03-14 16:58:27 UTC
-+++ mysqltuner.pl
-@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
- # mysqltuner.pl - Version 2.5.2
- # High Performance MySQL Tuning Script
- # Copyright (C) 2015-2023 Jean-Marie Renouard - jmrenouard@gmail.com