diff --git a/ports/libpng/portfile.cmake b/ports/libpng/portfile.cmake
index 87dce11ec7..d4fd56694a 100644
--- a/ports/libpng/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libpng/portfile.cmake
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ if(VCPKG_TARGET_IS_ANDROID)
     endif()
 endif()
 
+if(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL "arm64" AND VCPKG_TARGET_IS_LINUX)
+  vcpkg_list(APPEND LIBPNG_HARDWARE_OPTIMIZATIONS_OPTION "-DPNG_ARM_NEON=on")
+endif()
+
 vcpkg_cmake_configure(
     SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
     OPTIONS
diff --git a/ports/libpng/vcpkg.json b/ports/libpng/vcpkg.json
index 1502185df3..e739e88a03 100644
--- a/ports/libpng/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/libpng/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "libpng",
   "version": "1.6.43",
+  "port-version": 1,
   "description": "libpng is a library implementing an interface for reading and writing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format files",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/glennrp/libpng",
   "license": "libpng-2.0",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 9f7bcefad6..97f6c3a40c 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -4806,7 +4806,7 @@
     },
     "libpng": {
       "baseline": "1.6.43",
-      "port-version": 0
+      "port-version": 1
     },
     "libpopt": {
       "baseline": "1.16",
diff --git a/versions/l-/libpng.json b/versions/l-/libpng.json
index c9192d6871..498dae870f 100644
--- a/versions/l-/libpng.json
+++ b/versions/l-/libpng.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "1b0781214ef5a3497d0e7db2c0ed7f7fae74248b",
+      "version": "1.6.43",
+      "port-version": 1
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "8673cfd41804628ce52c499b8d23c5696104ec47",
       "version": "1.6.43",