diff --git a/ports/drogon/CONTROL b/ports/drogon/CONTROL
index e4da939a31e..fc00ee3ad3b 100644
--- a/ports/drogon/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/drogon/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: drogon
-Version: 1.6.0
+Version: 1.7.1
 Homepage: https://github.com/an-tao/drogon
 Description:Drogon: A C++14/17 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows
 Build-Depends: trantor, zlib, jsoncpp, libmariadb (!osx), libmariadb[iconv] (osx), libpq, sqlite3, brotli, libuuid (!windows)
diff --git a/ports/drogon/portfile.cmake b/ports/drogon/portfile.cmake
index 69ea0cf5559..0171af1d511 100644
--- a/ports/drogon/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/drogon/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO an-tao/drogon
-    REF v1.6.0
-    SHA512 3e3012bbee0a12cfabf79581bc0f57592065bc9618ed18c17ef77afee55750c8a8b8626053863208928b173cd0629f271a14a07e602f8ea93976c43b3ba5c9db
+    REF v1.7.1
+    SHA512 8a7cb8aa87cc48b130a5b47558b3c9e2a0af13cd8b76681e42d14a366dac75c88e389f2e2fe03b4f0f1e0e31971a47eee2bf5df8fcb4b79f8ed00d2a592315b6
     HEAD_REF master
     PATCHES
         vcpkg.patch
         resolv.patch
         drogon_config.patch
-        ssize_t.patch
 )
 
 vcpkg_check_features(
@@ -30,6 +29,9 @@ vcpkg_install_cmake()
 
 # Fix CMake files
 vcpkg_fixup_cmake_targets(CONFIG_PATH lib/cmake/Drogon)
+
+vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig()
+
 # Copy drogon_ctl
 if("ctl" IN_LIST FEATURES)
     message("copying tools")
diff --git a/ports/drogon/ssize_t.patch b/ports/drogon/ssize_t.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index aae977522a3..00000000000
--- a/ports/drogon/ssize_t.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/orm_lib/inc/drogon/orm/Mapper.h b/orm_lib/inc/drogon/orm/Mapper.h
-index d248625..8911f7f 100644
---- a/orm_lib/inc/drogon/orm/Mapper.h
-+++ b/orm_lib/inc/drogon/orm/Mapper.h
-@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
- #include <vector>
- 
- #ifdef _WIN32
--using ssize_t = std::intptr_t;
-+using ssize_t = long long;
- #endif
- 
- namespace drogon
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index ea507f9c428..2c0b3964ce8 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "drogon": {
-      "baseline": "1.6.0",
+      "baseline": "1.7.1",
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "dtl": {
diff --git a/versions/d-/drogon.json b/versions/d-/drogon.json
index fad0fff2c3f..309d7689d78 100644
--- a/versions/d-/drogon.json
+++ b/versions/d-/drogon.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "a325c34025250341e3f721353d5d3dfa66017e2b",
+      "version-string": "1.7.1",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "29f71d851bbd006bfed9aaad62b34158b3f7cc0a",
       "version-string": "1.6.0",