diff --git a/ports/absent/CONTROL b/ports/absent/CONTROL
index 03e3d00016..6d689b04a3 100644
--- a/ports/absent/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/absent/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: absent
-Version: 0.3.0
+Version: 0.3.1
 Homepage: https://github.com/rvarago/absent
-Description: A small library meant to simplify the composition of nullable types in a generic, type-safe, and declarative style for some C++ type constructors 
+Description: A small C++17 library meant to simplify the composition of nullable types in a generic, type-safe, and declarative way
diff --git a/ports/absent/portfile.cmake b/ports/absent/portfile.cmake
index c4d6a8bbc4..1c8436aa8b 100644
--- a/ports/absent/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/absent/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO rvarago/absent
-    REF 0.3.0
-    SHA512 e576a77e7305597ec931c4302a60355241fc8f2bb823d92add1079ea63e8ade39da6f5853135c1e68e3cc4c460dad7a67a76c3c451e645f05a39c2435b048f87
+    REF 0.3.1
+    SHA512 c7b7d29422ef8afc48e3093496e1dd055cfe9969ae037c2b06ea70fe4283e7a7e9129171efaa257e909c535e24df5861b992b24b00ec03f965730e6a22e13015
 )
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(