diff --git a/net/py-confluent-kafka/Makefile b/net/py-confluent-kafka/Makefile
index ab2d1965fa51..a5117cb39925 100644
--- a/net/py-confluent-kafka/Makefile
+++ b/net/py-confluent-kafka/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@
 PORTNAME=	confluent-kafka
-DISTVERSION=	1.2.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.8.2
 CATEGORIES=	net python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sergey@akhmatov.ru
 COMMENT=	Confluent Apache Kafka Python client
 WWW=		https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	librdkafka.so:net/librdkafka
 
 USES=		localbase python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
 
 post-install:
 	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/confluent_kafka/cimpl*.so
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/py-confluent-kafka/distinfo b/net/py-confluent-kafka/distinfo
index 1362ed09df21..b2849888122a 100644
--- a/net/py-confluent-kafka/distinfo
+++ b/net/py-confluent-kafka/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1569671596
-SHA256 (confluent-kafka-1.2.0.tar.gz) = 970da6d54686adc5719293c3103bf15f89cd04ec6d8c2a4fda0448f9def9c8da
-SIZE (confluent-kafka-1.2.0.tar.gz) = 88482
+TIMESTAMP = 1642063297
+SHA256 (confluent-kafka-1.8.2.tar.gz) = b79e836c3554bc51c6837a8a0152f7521c9bf31342f5b8e21eba6b28044fa585
+SIZE (confluent-kafka-1.8.2.tar.gz) = 104622
diff --git a/net/py-confluent-kafka/files/patch-setup.py b/net/py-confluent-kafka/files/patch-setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..163a56b24ffb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/py-confluent-kafka/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	2022-01-13 08:07:07 UTC
++++ setup.py
+@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ setup(name='confluent-kafka',
+       ext_modules=[module],
+       packages=find_packages('src'),
+       package_dir={'': 'src'},
+-      data_files=[('', [os.path.join(work_dir, 'LICENSE.txt')])],
+       install_requires=INSTALL_REQUIRES,
+       classifiers=trove_classifiers,
+       extras_require={