diff --git a/io/serialport/25-serial.html b/io/serialport/25-serial.html
index ea7d7842..e176fdd6 100644
--- a/io/serialport/25-serial.html
+++ b/io/serialport/25-serial.html
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
     <li>Wait for a timeout in milliseconds from the first character received</li>
     <li>Wait to fill a fixed sized buffer</li></ul></p>
     <p>It then outputs <code>msg.payload</code> as either a UTF8 ascii string or a binary Buffer object.</p>
+    <p><code>msg.port</code> is set to the name of the port selected.</p>
     <p>If no split character is specified, or a timeout or buffer size of 0, then a stream of single characters
     is sent - again either as ascii chars or size 1 binary buffers.</p>
 </script>
diff --git a/io/serialport/25-serial.js b/io/serialport/25-serial.js
index 07b3fd8d..e6fcf10d 100644
--- a/io/serialport/25-serial.js
+++ b/io/serialport/25-serial.js
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
             this.port.on('data', function(msg) {
                 // single char buffer
                 if ((node.serialConfig.newline === 0)||(node.serialConfig.newline === "")) {
-                    if (node.serialConfig.bin !== "bin") { node.send({"payload": String.fromCharCode(msg)}); }
-                    else { node.send({"payload": new Buffer([msg])}); }
+                    if (node.serialConfig.bin !== "bin") { node.send({"payload": String.fromCharCode(msg), port:node.serialConfig.serialport}); }
+                    else { node.send({"payload": new Buffer([msg]), port:node.serialConfig.serialport}); }
                 }
                 else {
                     // do the timer thing
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                                 var m = new Buffer(i+1);
                                 buf.copy(m,0,0,i+1);
                                 if (node.serialConfig.bin !== "bin") { m = m.toString(); }
-                                node.send({"payload": m});
+                                node.send({"payload": m, port:node.serialConfig.serialport});
                                 m = null;
                             }, node.serialConfig.newline);
                             i = 0;
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                             var m = new Buffer(i);
                             buf.copy(m,0,0,i);
                             if (node.serialConfig.bin !== "bin") { m = m.toString(); }
-                            node.send({"payload":m});
+                            node.send({"payload":m, port:node.serialConfig.serialport});
                             m = null;
                             i = 0;
                         }
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                             var n = new Buffer(i);
                             buf.copy(n,0,0,i);
                             if (node.serialConfig.bin !== "bin") { n = n.toString(); }
-                            node.send({"payload":n});
+                            node.send({"payload":n, port:node.serialConfig.serialport});
                             n = null;
                             i = 0;
                         }
diff --git a/io/serialport/package.json b/io/serialport/package.json
index ccf56099..ee68d2af 100644
--- a/io/serialport/package.json
+++ b/io/serialport/package.json
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {
     "name"          : "node-red-node-serialport",
-    "version"       : "0.6.4",
+    "version"       : "0.6.5",
     "description"   : "Node-RED nodes to talk to serial ports",
     "dependencies"  : {
-        "serialport"   : "^6.0.5"
+        "serialport"   : "^6.1.1"
     },
     "repository" : {
         "type":"git",