diff --git a/contrib/netcat/FREEBSD-vendor b/contrib/netcat/FREEBSD-vendor
index f54017524c1a..3f3aaed0e168 100644
--- a/contrib/netcat/FREEBSD-vendor
+++ b/contrib/netcat/FREEBSD-vendor
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 Project:	netcat (aka src/usr.bin/nc in OpenBSD)
 ProjectURL:	http://www.openbsd.org/
-Version:	4.7
+Version:	5.1
 License:	BSD