diff --git a/devel/rubygem-licensee/Makefile b/devel/rubygem-licensee/Makefile
index 1eb5ae23c29a..a2bc3d7a1c48 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-licensee/Makefile
+++ b/devel/rubygem-licensee/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	licensee
 PORTVERSION=	9.18.0
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	devel rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
 MAINTAINER=	ruby@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Detects under what license a project is distributed
 WWW=		https://github.com/benbalter/licensee
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.md
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-dotenv>=2.0<4:misc/rubygem-dotenv \
-		rubygem-octokit>=4.20<10:net/rubygem-octokit \
+		rubygem-octokit>=4.20<11.0:net/rubygem-octokit \
 		rubygem-reverse_markdown>=1.0<4:textproc/rubygem-reverse_markdown \
 		rubygem-rugged>=0.24<2.0:devel/rubygem-rugged \
 		rubygem-thor>=0.19<2.0:devel/rubygem-thor
 
 USES=		gem
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/licensee
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-licensee/files/patch-gemspec b/devel/rubygem-licensee/files/patch-gemspec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ae96489a33d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/rubygem-licensee/files/patch-gemspec
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Obtained from:	https://github.com/licensee/licensee/commit/6ea85b52fbaed51b01c706542600a21523660712
+
+--- licensee.gemspec.orig	2025-12-18 20:06:41 UTC
++++ licensee.gemspec
+@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+   s.specification_version = 4
+ 
+   s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<dotenv>.freeze, [">= 2".freeze, "< 4".freeze])
+-  s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<octokit>.freeze, [">= 4.20".freeze, "< 10.0".freeze])
++  s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<octokit>.freeze, [">= 4.20".freeze, "< 11.0".freeze])
+   s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<reverse_markdown>.freeze, [">= 1".freeze, "< 4".freeze])
+   s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<rugged>.freeze, [">= 0.24".freeze, "< 2.0".freeze])
+   s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<thor>.freeze, [">= 0.19".freeze, "< 2.0".freeze])