diff --git a/Ports/AvailablePorts.md b/Ports/AvailablePorts.md
index 61a24f1481..279134dada 100644
--- a/Ports/AvailablePorts.md
+++ b/Ports/AvailablePorts.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Please make sure to keep this list up to date when adding and updating ports. :^
 | [`dreamweb`](dreamweb/)                | DreamWeb                                                        | 1.1                      | https://www.scummvm.org/games/#games-dreamweb                                  |
 | [`dropbear`](dropbear/)                | Dropbear SSH                                                    | 2019.78                  | https://dropbear.nl/mirror/dropbear.html                                       |
 | [`dungeonrush`](dungeonrush/)          | DungeonRush                                                     | 1.1-beta                 | https://github.com/Rapiz1/DungeonRush                                          |
-| [`ed`](ed/)                            | GNU ed                                                          | 1.15                     | https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/                                               |
+| [`ed`](ed/)                            | GNU ed                                                          | 1.18                     | https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/                                               |
 | [`emu2`](emu2/)                        | emu2 DOS emulator                                               | 2021.01                  | https://github.com/dmsc/emu2                                                   |
 | [`epsilon`](epsilon/)                  | graphical calculator simulator                                  | 15.5.0                   | https://github.com/numworks/epsilon                                            |
 | [`fheroes2`](fheroes2/)                | Free Heroes of Might and Magic II                               | 0.9.13                   | https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2                                              |
diff --git a/Ports/ed/package.sh b/Ports/ed/package.sh
index 5eabd352a9..a398bd99ed 100755
--- a/Ports/ed/package.sh
+++ b/Ports/ed/package.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env -S bash ../.port_include.sh
 port=ed
-version=1.15
+version=1.18
 files="https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/ed/ed-${version}.tar.lz ed-${version}.tar.lz
 https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/ed/ed-${version}.tar.lz.sig ed-${version}.tar.lz.sig
 https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg gnu-keyring.gpg"
diff --git a/Ports/ed/patches/fix-Makefile-in.patch b/Ports/ed/patches/fix-Makefile-in.patch
index 60ec8235bf..4405b62389 100644
--- a/Ports/ed/patches/fix-Makefile-in.patch
+++ b/Ports/ed/patches/fix-Makefile-in.patch
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---- ed-1.15/Makefile.in.orig	Sat Feb  1 14:22:52 2020
-+++ ed-1.15/Makefile.in	Sat Feb  1 14:23:06 2020
+--- ed-1.18/Makefile.in.og	2022-03-31 22:53:17.000000000 +0200
++++ ed-1.18/Makefile.in	2022-03-31 22:54:31.000000000 +0200
 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  all : $(progname) r$(progname)
  
  $(progname) : $(objs)
--	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(objs)
-+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(objs) -lpcre2-posix -lpcre2-8
+-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(objs)
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(objs) -lpcre2-posix -lpcre2-8
  
  r$(progname) : r$(progname).in
  	cat $(VPATH)/r$(progname).in > $@
diff --git a/Ports/ed/patches/fix-configure.patch b/Ports/ed/patches/fix-configure.patch
index ab9ac10a99..f3c556db15 100644
--- a/Ports/ed/patches/fix-configure.patch
+++ b/Ports/ed/patches/fix-configure.patch
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
---- ed-1.15/configure.old	2021-08-10 00:18:06.612959086 +0800
-+++ ed-1.15/configure	2021-08-10 00:18:31.035115395 +0800
-@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
- bindir='$(exec_prefix)/bin'
- datarootdir='$(prefix)/share'
+--- ed-1.18/configure.og	2022-03-31 22:58:11.000000000 +0200
++++ ed-1.18/configure	2022-03-31 23:01:31.000000000 +0200
+@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@
  infodir='$(datarootdir)/info'
  mandir='$(datarootdir)/man'
  program_prefix=
@@ -10,12 +8,10 @@
 -CPPFLAGS=
 -CFLAGS='-Wall -W -O2'
 -LDFLAGS=
-+CC=${CC-gcc}
-+CPPFLAGS=${CPPFLAGS-}
-+CFLAGS=${CFLAGS-"-Wall -W -O2"}
-+LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS-}
++CC?=gcc
++CPPFLAGS?=
++CFLAGS?='-Wall -W -O2'
++LDFLAGS?=
  
  # checking whether we are using GNU C.
- /bin/sh -c "${CC} --version" > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
- 	{
- 	CC=cc
+ /bin/sh -c "${CC} --version" > /dev/null 2>&1 || { CC=cc ; CFLAGS=-O2 ; }