diff --git a/system/yash/README b/system/yash/README
index ca964a8139..16bcf05cc5 100644
--- a/system/yash/README
+++ b/system/yash/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Yash, yet another shell, is a POSIX-compliant command line shell written
-by Watanabe Yuki (aka magicant) in C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999). It was
-originally written as a work on a university course assignment, but the
-code has been re-written from scratch to meet the requirement of POSIX.
-Yash is intended to be the most POSIX-compliant shell in the world.
+Yash (yet another shell) is a POSIX-compliant command line shell written
+by Yuki Watanabe (aka magicant) in C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999). It was
+originally written as a university assignment, but the code has since
+been re-written from scratch to meet POSIX requirements. Yash is
+intended to be the most POSIX-compliant shell in the world.
diff --git a/system/yash/slack-desc b/system/yash/slack-desc
index 3739299edd..3beb784ad6 100644
--- a/system/yash/slack-desc
+++ b/system/yash/slack-desc
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
     |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
 yash: yash (POSIX-compliant command line shell)
 yash:
-yash: Yash, yet another shell, is a POSIX-compliant command line shell
-yash: written by Watanabe Yuki (aka magicant) in C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999).
+yash: Yash (yet another shell) is a POSIX-compliant command line shell
+yash: written by Yuki Watanabe (aka magicant) in C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999).
 yash: Yash is intended to be the most POSIX-compliant shell in the world.
 yash:
+yash: Author: Yuki Watanabe
 yash: Homepage: https://yash.osdn.jp/index.html.en
 yash:
 yash:
 yash:
-yash:
diff --git a/system/yash/yash.SlackBuild b/system/yash/yash.SlackBuild
index 68ae479d09..cf52baefc2 100644
--- a/system/yash/yash.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/yash/yash.SlackBuild
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 # Copyright 2015-2018 Leonard Schmidt <lems@gmx.net>
 # Copyright 2018-2020 Hunter Sezen <orbea@riseup.net>
+# Copyright 2023 K. Eugene Carlson <kvngncrlsn@gmail.com>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=yash
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.51}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.55}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -53,16 +54,12 @@ OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 else
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
 set -eu
@@ -87,8 +84,7 @@ CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
   --mandir=/usr/man
 
 make
-# make test is problematic on 14.2
-#make test
+make test
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin
@@ -101,7 +97,7 @@ find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a COPYING NEWS NEWS.ja README README.ja THANKS $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a COPYING NEWS NEWS.ja README.md README.ja.md THANKS $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
diff --git a/system/yash/yash.info b/system/yash/yash.info
index 3df9b418a4..426979323f 100644
--- a/system/yash/yash.info
+++ b/system/yash/yash.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="yash"
-VERSION="2.51"
+VERSION="2.55"
 HOMEPAGE="https://yash.osdn.jp/index.html.en"
-DOWNLOAD="http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/yash-2.51.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="91d0c0fa548c9c9a081893f515b4f049"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/magicant/yash/releases/download/2.55/yash-2.55.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="ec4ad069cd79aace2348abeb6dcb5275"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""
-MAINTAINER="Hunter Sezen"
-EMAIL="orbea@riseup.net"
+MAINTAINER="K. Eugene Carlson"
+EMAIL="kvngncrlsn@gmail.com"