diff --git a/devel/bazel/Makefile b/devel/bazel/Makefile
index e3b5047d41bc..06ca0b21df7f 100644
--- a/devel/bazel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/bazel/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=		bazel
-DISTVERSION=		0.25.0
+DISTVERSION=		0.26.0
 CATEGORIES=		devel java
 MASTER_SITES=		https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel/${PORTVERSION}/rc${FINALRC}/
 DISTNAME=		bazel-${PORTVERSION}rc${FINALRC}-dist
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ BUILD_DEPENDS=		bash:shells/bash \
 # In bazel, a release is always code-wise identical to the final release candidate.
 # Hence we can also download that one and so have a simple way to also test earlier release
 # candidates.
-FINALRC=		8
+FINALRC=		16
 
 USES=			shebangfix zip:infozip python
 SHEBANG_REGEX=		.*(sh|txt|_stub|stub_.*|bazel|get_workspace_status|protobuf_support|_so)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ STRIP=	# The bazel binary is also a zip archive (extracted by the elf part), it
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if ${ARCH} == "i386"
-EXTRA_PATCHES+=	${FILESDIR}/extra-i386_src_BUILD ${FILESDIR}/extra-i386_tools_cpp_BUILD.static.freebsd
+EXTRA_PATCHES+=	${FILESDIR}/extra-i386_tools_cpp_BUILD.static.freebsd
 .endif
 
 # Have the location of the system-wide rc file reside ${ETCDIR}.
diff --git a/devel/bazel/distinfo b/devel/bazel/distinfo
index be7289ba0d87..10d1255669ee 100644
--- a/devel/bazel/distinfo
+++ b/devel/bazel/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1556707468
-SHA256 (bazel-0.25.0rc8-dist.zip) = 68bd06162f79cdca0c7932725eee0db22a432b73fbab1821391706eaa473f18b
-SIZE (bazel-0.25.0rc8-dist.zip) = 275800512
+TIMESTAMP = 1558938094
+SHA256 (bazel-0.26.0rc16-dist.zip) = e7db1cd14b0905f766dfdbf13b802c1d9ebd1c08dd2c646b4216d4d746ada87f
+SIZE (bazel-0.26.0rc16-dist.zip) = 244629965
diff --git a/devel/bazel/files/extra-i386_src_BUILD b/devel/bazel/files/extra-i386_src_BUILD
deleted file mode 100644
index f7bbbf89b5c2..000000000000
--- a/devel/bazel/files/extra-i386_src_BUILD
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- src/BUILD.orig	1980-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
-+++ src/BUILD	2019-02-06 14:36:18.532824000 +0000
-@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
- ] + select({
-     "//src/conditions:arm": [],
-     "//conditions:default": [
--        "//src/tools/singlejar:singlejar_local",
-+        "//src/java_tools/singlejar:SingleJar_deploy.jar",
-     ],
- })
-