diff --git a/x11-wm/river/Makefile b/x11-wm/river/Makefile
index 6179b45824c70..75f50375b64f7 100644
--- a/x11-wm/river/Makefile
+++ b/x11-wm/river/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	river
-PORTVERSION=	s20210715
+PORTVERSION=	s20210719
 CATEGORIES=	x11-wm
 
 MAINTAINER=	jbeich@FreeBSD.org
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ USES=		pkgconfig xorg
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 USE_XORG=	pixman
 GH_ACCOUNT=	ifreund
-GH_TAGNAME=	28fc879
+GH_TAGNAME=	1fec079
 GH_TUPLE=	ifreund:zig-pixman:135f223:zig_pixman/deps/zig-pixman \
 		ifreund:zig-wayland:a8e1efc:zig_wayland/deps/zig-wayland \
 		ifreund:zig-xkbcommon:10cdca6:zig_xkbcommon/deps/zig-xkbcommon \
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ NO_INSTALL=	yes # strip(1) breaks runtime
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/${PORTNAME} \
 		bin/${PORTNAME}ctl \
 		bin/${PORTNAME}tile \
-		"@sample ${ETCDIR}/init.sample" \
 		share/bash-completion/completions/${PORTNAME}ctl \
 		share/fish/vendor_completions.d/${PORTNAME}ctl.fish \
 		share/zsh/site-functions/_${PORTNAME}ctl \
@@ -55,9 +54,8 @@ X11_CONFIGURE_ON=	-Dxwayland=true
 X11_CONFIGURE_OFF=	-Dxwayland=false
 
 post-patch:
-# Respect PREFIX for system-wide config (a la sysconfdir in Meson)
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,/etc,${PREFIX}&,' \
-		${WRKSRC}/doc/${PORTNAME}.1.scd \
+# Respect PREFIX in path references
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,/usr,${LOCALBASE},' \
 		${WRKSRC}/doc/${PORTNAME}ctl.1.scd
 
 do-build:
@@ -66,8 +64,4 @@ do-build:
 do-test:
 	@(cd ${WRKSRC} && ${TEST_ENV} zig build test ${CONFIGURE_ARGS})
 
-post-install:
-# Let @sample handle default files under etc/
-	@${MV} ${STAGEDIR}${ETCDIR}/init ${STAGEDIR}${ETCDIR}/init.sample
-
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/x11-wm/river/distinfo b/x11-wm/river/distinfo
index 153a6a821be98..79d68557fff04 100644
--- a/x11-wm/river/distinfo
+++ b/x11-wm/river/distinfo
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1626350422
-SHA256 (ifreund-river-s20210715-28fc879_GH0.tar.gz) = a356ceac9c8cc1f7a011243917c6351d6ea5a8db1992c6e5a02e3be8fba0a6c2
-SIZE (ifreund-river-s20210715-28fc879_GH0.tar.gz) = 117024
+TIMESTAMP = 1626696070
+SHA256 (ifreund-river-s20210719-1fec079_GH0.tar.gz) = 0cbdd222095d9e4f8af4c2b49f6cc4cc3b6d54d655e8e46923a12e2248c5f4f9
+SIZE (ifreund-river-s20210719-1fec079_GH0.tar.gz) = 116732
 SHA256 (ifreund-zig-pixman-135f223_GH0.tar.gz) = a83a37ff55483f61db0d70f778ebb4cd149da5c427ab55c391478425f43f584d
 SIZE (ifreund-zig-pixman-135f223_GH0.tar.gz) = 7155
 SHA256 (ifreund-zig-wayland-a8e1efc_GH0.tar.gz) = 6320eb68e6cdf0f44720423c39db6dc831c64511b03ad9543654d284282f869e