diff --git a/ftp/curl/Makefile b/ftp/curl/Makefile
index 2ca79b6c42c3..ce5746a36cb9 100644
--- a/ftp/curl/Makefile
+++ b/ftp/curl/Makefile
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # New ports collection makefile for:	curl
-# Version required:     5.9
+# Version required:     6.1
 # Date created:		12 December 1998
 # Whom:			Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za>
 #
 # $FreeBSD$
 
-DISTNAME=	curl-5.9
+DISTNAME=	curl-6.1
 CATEGORIES=	ftp www
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/stuff/ \
 		ftp://ftp.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/pub-koeln/net/inet/ \
diff --git a/ftp/curl/distinfo b/ftp/curl/distinfo
index 79eedae4f47d..5b84958c01ee 100644
--- a/ftp/curl/distinfo
+++ b/ftp/curl/distinfo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (curl-5.9.tar.gz) = c073c04a85392825bc7c8be279799ad6
+MD5 (curl-6.1.tar.gz) = 9451e8a241b51bd612b4a0c86ae39a13