There is an updated pull request by ndowens against master on the void-packages repository

https://github.com/ndowens/void-packages jrnl
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27324

jrnl: update to 2.5
superceeds #26398

A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27324.patch is attached