diff --git a/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/Makefile b/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/Makefile
index 50eeb795201c..e614b88eaaf3 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/Makefile
+++ b/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/Makefile
@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 PORTNAME=	cucumber-core
-PORTVERSION=	11.1.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	12.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Core library for the Cucumber BDD app
-WWW=		https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby-core
+WWW=		https://cucumber.io/ \
+		https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby-core
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-cucumber-gherkin>=24<27:textproc/rubygem-cucumber-gherkin \
-		rubygem-cucumber-messages>=19<22.1:devel/rubygem-cucumber-messages \
-		rubygem-cucumber-tag-expressions4>=4.1.0<5:devel/rubygem-cucumber-tag-expressions4
+RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-cucumber-gherkin>=25<27:textproc/rubygem-cucumber-gherkin \
+		rubygem-cucumber-messages>=20<23:devel/rubygem-cucumber-messages \
+		rubygem-cucumber-tag-expressions>=5.0.4<6:devel/rubygem-cucumber-tag-expressions
 
 USES=		gem
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/distinfo b/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/distinfo
index 138b597ed462..e92ba0b5c17f 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/distinfo
+++ b/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1674590340
-SHA256 (rubygem/cucumber-core-11.1.0.gem) = 4b5a76518555f97be0e7220011a593462941c7dbd225e610f0f1f7ccf5f4b90a
-SIZE (rubygem/cucumber-core-11.1.0.gem) = 27136
+TIMESTAMP = 1694348352
+SHA256 (rubygem/cucumber-core-12.0.0.gem) = c2a7f4c457dd64df6cc7f430392fb5c03160805eafb27849639fee65d5bb9dfa
+SIZE (rubygem/cucumber-core-12.0.0.gem) = 27136
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/files/patch-gemspec b/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/files/patch-gemspec
deleted file mode 100644
index c625b7906ba3..000000000000
--- a/devel/rubygem-cucumber-core/files/patch-gemspec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- cucumber-core.gemspec.orig	2023-04-09 15:39:17 UTC
-+++ cucumber-core.gemspec
-@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
-   s.specification_version = 4
- 
-   s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<cucumber-gherkin>.freeze, [">= 24", "< 27"])
--  s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<cucumber-messages>.freeze, [">= 19", "< 22"])
-+  s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<cucumber-messages>.freeze, [">= 19", "< 22.1"])
-   s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<cucumber-tag-expressions>.freeze, ["~> 4.1", ">= 4.1.0"])
-   s.add_development_dependency(%q<rake>.freeze, ["~> 13.0", ">= 13.0.6"])
-   s.add_development_dependency(%q<rspec>.freeze, ["~> 3.11", ">= 3.11.0"])