diff --git a/R/R-stars/Portfile b/R/R-stars/Portfile
index 4cf71c1858dfb..9fe5fee245286 100644
--- a/R/R-stars/Portfile
+++ b/R/R-stars/Portfile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 PortSystem          1.0
 PortGroup           R 1.0
 
-R.setup             cran r-spatial stars 0.6-5
-revision            2
+R.setup             cran r-spatial stars 0.6-6
+revision            0
 categories-append   math
 platforms           {darwin any}
 maintainers         {@barracuda156 gmail.com:vital.had} openmaintainer
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ license             Apache
 description         Spatiotemporal arrays, raster and vector data cubes
 long_description    {*}${description}
 homepage            https://r-spatial.github.io/stars
-checksums           rmd160  17afe88971c39aebb9afccec159aaf2506b7f18b \
-                    sha256  4fcb12f25ce4351840d24489b8d6ca61eecc0da12f93bfab702701a430d0afac \
-                    size    3739727
+checksums           rmd160  873231b28dcfe793d25710ea6dc7e82c949b0607 \
+                    sha256  70ca3509adfb4227ca8910d47c87f587ec06d8ef4577af63fe772757844ec7ac \
+                    size    3741200
 supported_archs     noarch
 
 depends_lib-append  port:R-abind \
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ depends_lib-append  port:R-abind \
 # which is not the case in MacPorts by default. Related tests will fail.
 # https://github.com/r-spatial/stars/issues/692
 # https://github.com/r-spatial/stars/issues/693
-patchfiles-append   ffdad4cf451075651a179cb73991e6646c5ec83f.patch
 # mdim test fails regardless, remove it for now.
 post-extract {
     delete ${worksrcpath}/tests/mdim.R
diff --git a/R/R-stars/files/ffdad4cf451075651a179cb73991e6646c5ec83f.patch b/R/R-stars/files/ffdad4cf451075651a179cb73991e6646c5ec83f.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ab2e30c5b843..0000000000000
--- a/R/R-stars/files/ffdad4cf451075651a179cb73991e6646c5ec83f.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-From ffdad4cf451075651a179cb73991e6646c5ec83f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: edzer <edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de>
-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:10:54 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] address #692
-
----
- R/init.R | 2 ++
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/R/init.R b/R/init.R
-index dffab70d..953b4b39 100644
---- R/init.R
-+++ R/init.R
-@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@ setOldClass("stars_proxy")
- 
- .onLoad = function(libname, pkgname) {
- 	register_all_s3_methods() # dynamically registers non-imported pkgs (tidyverse) # nocov
-+	if (nrow(sf::st_drivers("raster", "netCDF")) != 1)
-+		message("Note: sf is linked to a GDAL version without netCDF driver, some tests or examples may fail")
- }