diff --git a/app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.14.recipe b/app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.16.recipe
similarity index 89%
rename from app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.14.recipe
rename to app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.16.recipe
index ae47b1060..73434b365 100644
--- a/app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.14.recipe
+++ b/app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.16.recipe
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ and markup languages. For an extensive overview, see \"Features\" on the website
 Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems, including \
 Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD, Solaris and Haiku."
 HOMEPAGE="https://bluefish.openoffice.nl/"
-COPYRIGHT="1998-2023 Olivier Sessink and others."
+COPYRIGHT="1998-2024 Olivier Sessink and others."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
 REVISION="1"
 SOURCE_URI="https://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/source/bluefish-$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="a7cbeda5da70e78391bde9b5d55cc5cbfc2e3e04c48e8ccb21819e9c61ec4710"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="97ea1b836a1b30edfc31b63fb4142d7cfd906acf088d61eb4498936313c79f5a"
 
 ADDITIONAL_FILES="bluefish.rdef.in"
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ REQUIRES="
 	lib:libpango_1.0$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libpcre2_8$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libpangocairo_1.0$secondaryArchSuffix
-	lib:libpython3.9$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libpython3.10$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libxml2$secondaryArchSuffix
 	"
 
@@ -64,13 +64,14 @@ BUILD_REQUIRES="
 	devel:libintl$secondaryArchSuffix
 	devel:libpango_1.0$secondaryArchSuffix
 	devel:libpangocairo_1.0$secondaryArchSuffix
-	devel:libpython3.9$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libpython3.10$secondaryArchSuffix
 	devel:libxml2$secondaryArchSuffix
 	"
 BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:aclocal
 	cmd:autoconf
 	cmd:automake
+	cmd:autopoint
 	cmd:awk
 	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:gucharmap
@@ -78,20 +79,24 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:make
+	cmd:man
 	cmd:pkg_config$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:python3
+	cmd:which
+	cmd:xmlcatalog
 	"
 
 BUILD()
 {
 	autoreconf -f -i
-	runConfigure --omit-dirs binDir ./configure \
+	LDFLAGS="-lnetwork" runConfigure --omit-dirs binDir ./configure \
 		--bindir=$appsDir \
 		--enable-spell-check \
 		--disable-dependency-tracking \
 		--disable-static \
 		--disable-update-databases \
 		--disable-xml-catalog-update
-	make $jobArgs
+	make
 }
 
 INSTALL()
@@ -101,7 +106,7 @@ INSTALL()
 	mv $appsDir/bluefish $appsDir/BlueFish
 
 	rm -rf $libDir/bluefish/*.la
-	rm -rf $dataDir/{applications,mime,pixmaps}
+	rm -rf $dataDir/{applications,icons,metainfo,mime,pixmaps}
 
 
 	local MAJOR="`echo "$portVersion" | cut -d. -f1`"