diff --git a/textproc/jshon/Makefile b/textproc/jshon/Makefile
index b2192c153af1..0a72417baebe 100644
--- a/textproc/jshon/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/jshon/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	jshon
-DISTVERSION=	20160111.2
+DISTVERSION=	20170302.1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 
-MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
+MAINTAINER=	0mp@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	JSON parser for the shell
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
@@ -12,25 +12,23 @@ LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libjansson.so:devel/jansson
 
-COMMIT_HASH=	783d3bf
-GH_TAGNAME=	${COMMIT_HASH}
-
 USES=		gmake
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	keenerd
-
-OPTIONS_DEFINE=	ZSH
-OPTIONS_DEFAULT=
+GH_TAGNAME=	d919aea
 
 CPPFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
 LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/jshon man/man1/jshon.1.gz
 
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=	ZSH
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=ZSH
+
 ZSH_PLIST_FILES=	share/zsh/site-functions/jshon_zsh_completion
 
 pre-configure:
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|^\(#define JSHONVER \).*|\1"${PORTVERSION}-${COMMIT_HASH}"|' \
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|^\(#define JSHONVER \).*|\1"${PORTVERSION}-${GH_TAGNAME}"|' \
 	-e 's|\({printf("%\)i\(\\n", JSHONVER); exit(0);}\)|\1s\2|' \
 	${WRKSRC}/jshon.c
 
@@ -38,9 +36,6 @@ do-install:
 	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/${PORTNAME} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin
 	${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/${PORTNAME}.1 ${STAGEDIR}${MANPREFIX}/man/man1
 
-post-install:
-	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/${PORTNAME}
-
 post-install-ZSH-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/zsh/site-functions
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/jshon_zsh_completion ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/zsh/site-functions/
diff --git a/textproc/jshon/distinfo b/textproc/jshon/distinfo
index 6e1f8ef6551f..a875fefd929e 100644
--- a/textproc/jshon/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/jshon/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1509170073
-SHA256 (keenerd-jshon-20160111.2-783d3bf_GH0.tar.gz) = b50bcab22ff609bf54b09f580b2882a5aa2c1882205b6914d766495e2d4765e8
-SIZE (keenerd-jshon-20160111.2-783d3bf_GH0.tar.gz) = 14123
+TIMESTAMP = 1543855297
+SHA256 (keenerd-jshon-20170302.1-d919aea_GH0.tar.gz) = a14521b9a0bf06e48949d6bd233403b754a8ac47b08f37244e589c34d8a4db0f
+SIZE (keenerd-jshon-20170302.1-d919aea_GH0.tar.gz) = 14126
diff --git a/textproc/jshon/pkg-descr b/textproc/jshon/pkg-descr
index 04c34ee3985b..32e3e51d8f78 100644
--- a/textproc/jshon/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/jshon/pkg-descr
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
-jshon parses, reads and creates JSON. It is designed to be as usable as
-possible from within the shell and replaces fragile adhoc parsers made
+Jshon parses, reads and creates JSON. It is designed to be as usable as
+possible from within the shell and replaces fragile ad hoc parsers made
 from grep/sed/awk as well as heavyweight one-line parsers made from
 perl/python.
 
+Jshon loads JSON text from stdin, performs actions, then displays the last
+action on stdout. Some of the options output JSON, others output plain text
+meta information. Because Bash has very poor nested data structures, Jshon does
+not try to return a native bash data structure as a typical library would.
+Instead, Jshon provides a history stack containing all the manipulations.
+
+The big change in the latest release is switching the everything from
+pass-by-value to pass-by-reference. In a typical use case (processing AUR
+search results for 'python') by-ref is twice as fast and uses one sixth the
+memory. If you are editing JSON, by-ref also makes your life a lot easier as
+modifications do not need to be manually inserted through the entire stack.
+
 WWW: http://kmkeen.com/jshon/