diff --git a/java/apache-commons-codec/Makefile b/java/apache-commons-codec/Makefile
index 437931507945..83a0a10f7406 100644
--- a/java/apache-commons-codec/Makefile
+++ b/java/apache-commons-codec/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	commons-codec
-PORTVERSION=	1.16.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.18.0
 CATEGORIES=	java converters
 MASTER_SITES=	APACHE_COMMONS_BINARIES
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	apache-
diff --git a/java/apache-commons-codec/distinfo b/java/apache-commons-codec/distinfo
index 34f1f62d3e27..c4dff7252fc7 100644
--- a/java/apache-commons-codec/distinfo
+++ b/java/apache-commons-codec/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1687509870
-SHA256 (commons-codec-1.16.0-bin.tar.gz) = 29064ce8b840552dbb9f5dacd8b324ca2c5f279678ca61482185834de982e9eb
-SIZE (commons-codec-1.16.0-bin.tar.gz) = 2838473
+TIMESTAMP = 1743530240
+SHA256 (commons-codec-1.18.0-bin.tar.gz) = 7d59aecd46e1cfc77b5dee75edbe37233b70d46f90b6422feb5b505e0fc38267
+SIZE (commons-codec-1.18.0-bin.tar.gz) = 3270148