diff --git a/ports/xlnt/portfile.cmake b/ports/xlnt/portfile.cmake
index b912d3a268..46aa3ded14 100644
--- a/ports/xlnt/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/xlnt/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 # Download the xlnt source code
-vcpkg_from_github(
-    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
-    REPO xlnt-community/xlnt
-    REF "v${VERSION}"
-    SHA512 2d016416447b56c3902fc86c0441fd1d10cb86c3a542a2a38929e32f8f55470c33e4a3938f9c47b1a672ac4d6784a981c4738a61fd076622a2baa64dbc632810
-    HEAD_REF master
+set(ARCHIVE_NAME "xlnt-${VERSION}.tar.gz")
+set(ARCHIVE_SHA512 2d016416447b56c3902fc86c0441fd1d10cb86c3a542a2a38929e32f8f55470c33e4a3938f9c47b1a672ac4d6784a981c4738a61fd076622a2baa64dbc632810)
+vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
+    URLS "https://github.com/xlnt-community/xlnt/archive/v${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+    FILENAME "${ARCHIVE_NAME}"
+    SHA512 ${ARCHIVE_SHA512}
+)
+
+# Extract the source archive
+vcpkg_extract_source_archive(
+    SOURCE_PATH
+    ARCHIVE "${ARCHIVE}"
     PATCHES
         fix-not-found-include.patch
         fix-configure-dependencies.patch
diff --git a/ports/xlnt/vcpkg.json b/ports/xlnt/vcpkg.json
index 7e28393e7b..a9db0f18c9 100644
--- a/ports/xlnt/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/xlnt/vcpkg.json
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   "homepage": "https://github.com/xlnt-community/xlnt",
   "documentation": "https://xlnt-community.gitbook.io/xlnt",
   "license": "MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause",
+  "supports": "windows & linux & osx",
   "dependencies": [
     "fast-float",
     "fmt",
diff --git a/versions/x-/xlnt.json b/versions/x-/xlnt.json
index f2d593bae9..abb7d508af 100644
--- a/versions/x-/xlnt.json
+++ b/versions/x-/xlnt.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "versions": [
     {
-      "git-tree": "c28a307d002509a5664301322ebc75024146b299",
+      "git-tree": "255750540ce4c37678c62e64f10fbb0e411f59bc",
       "version": "1.6.1",
       "port-version": 0
     },