diff --git a/ports/luafilesystem/CONTROL b/ports/luafilesystem/CONTROL
index 149a899a6..4ff18cda4 100644
--- a/ports/luafilesystem/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/luafilesystem/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: luafilesystem
-Version: 1.6.3-1
+Version: 1.7.0.2
 Description: LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.
 Build-Depends: lua
diff --git a/ports/luafilesystem/lfs-def-fix.patch b/ports/luafilesystem/lfs-def-fix.patch
index 62cea763e..34923427f 100644
--- a/ports/luafilesystem/lfs-def-fix.patch
+++ b/ports/luafilesystem/lfs-def-fix.patch
@@ -1,21 +1,20 @@
-From 644c9c32ca9053ced3d37ff76fc1fbc0389ddf53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alex <null@null.null>
-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:15:41 +0300
-Subject: [PATCH] DEF file fixes (DESCRIPTION is deprecated; VERSION must
- contain one or two numers)
+From 92527d96199912f79b8046ddb32ff83a16771cb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Stephen E. Baker" <baker.stephen.e@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 21:18:58 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] Update version in lfs.def
 
+Version number of current release is 1.7
 ---
- src/lfs.def | 3 +--
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
+ src/lfs.def | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
 diff --git a/src/lfs.def b/src/lfs.def
-index 7aa7a35..8a36d41 100644
+index 8a36d41..4055ff0 100644
 --- a/src/lfs.def
 +++ b/src/lfs.def
-@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  LIBRARY lfs.dll
--DESCRIPTION "LuaFileSystem"
--VERSION 1.5.0
-+VERSION 1.6
+-VERSION 1.6
++VERSION 1.7
  EXPORTS
  luaopen_lfs
diff --git a/ports/luafilesystem/portfile.cmake b/ports/luafilesystem/portfile.cmake
index e55d56881..74c3d116a 100644
--- a/ports/luafilesystem/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/luafilesystem/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 include(vcpkg_common_functions)
 
-set(LUAFILESYSTEM_VERSION 1.6.3)
-set(LUAFILESYSTEM_REVISION v_1_6_3)
-set(LUAFILESYSTEM_HASH abfa1b3ac22ed80189560a1a025a7ea21a954defe14e5b539e08f266d180962a691262efc7eb2ddacc2d4aae14d6e356b1a276165b5bed46a13e4d6c61ab99f1)
+set(LUAFILESYSTEM_VERSION 1.7.0.2)
+set(LUAFILESYSTEM_REVISION v1_7_0_2)
+set(LUAFILESYSTEM_HASH a1d4d077776e57cd878dbcd21656da141ea3686c587b5420a2b039aeaf086b7e7d05d531ee1cc2bbd7d06660d1315b09593e52143f6711f033ce8eecdc550511)
 
 set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/luafilesystem-${LUAFILESYSTEM_VERSION})
 vcpkg_from_github(