diff --git a/textproc/sowing/Makefile b/textproc/sowing/Makefile
index af8b5c936bb3..806d2efae068 100644
--- a/textproc/sowing/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/sowing/Makefile
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	sowing
-PORTVERSION=	1.1.15
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTVERSION=	1.1.16
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/sowing/
 
diff --git a/textproc/sowing/distinfo b/textproc/sowing/distinfo
index cca45ca438ee..681bc020cdf3 100644
--- a/textproc/sowing/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/sowing/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (sowing-1.1.15.tar.gz) = a322c0256f87408866d158ccebf4698d
-SHA256 (sowing-1.1.15.tar.gz) = 1b2380bf412eee1450e903078db662255fa7768feac4a6e9b1adf41868a2b889
-SIZE (sowing-1.1.15.tar.gz) = 500552
+MD5 (sowing-1.1.16.tar.gz) = 2301f1446baa090aff2741459962a920
+SHA256 (sowing-1.1.16.tar.gz) = 284b43164d3da551e6cd5abe450e9dda81848d4302868f5812000fedbcfe81cb
+SIZE (sowing-1.1.16.tar.gz) = 507064