diff --git a/www/youtube_dl/Makefile b/www/youtube_dl/Makefile
index 37c6ecc85b26..305755a1dc2d 100644
--- a/www/youtube_dl/Makefile
+++ b/www/youtube_dl/Makefile
@@ -1,40 +1,40 @@
 PORTNAME=	youtube_dl
-DISTVERSION=	2021.06.06
+DISTVERSION=	2021.12.17
 CATEGORIES=	www
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/${DISTVERSION}/ \
 		https://yt-dl.org/downloads/${DISTVERSION}/
 DISTNAME=	youtube-dl-${DISTVERSION}
 
 # Implicit approval to commit trivial version updates.
 MAINTAINER=	multimedia@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Program for downloading videos from various services
 
 LICENSE=	UNLICENSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 USES=		gmake python
 
 MAKE_ARGS=	PYTHON=${PYTHON_CMD}
 ALL_TARGET=	youtube-dl
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/youtube-dl
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/youtube-dl \
 		etc/bash_completion.d/youtube-dl.sh \
 		man/man1/youtube-dl.1.gz \
 		share/fish/vendor_completions.d/youtube-dl.fish \
 		share/zsh/site-functions/_youtube-dl
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		FFMPEG RTMPDUMP
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	RTMPDUMP
 
 RTMPDUMP_DESC=	Use rtmpdump to download rtmp video streams
 
 FFMPEG_RUN_DEPENDS=	ffprobe:multimedia/ffmpeg
 RTMPDUMP_RUN_DEPENDS=	rtmpdump:multimedia/rtmpdump
 
 post-extract:
 # remove tarball provided version, build our own
 	@${RM} ${WRKSRC}/youtube-dl
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/www/youtube_dl/distinfo b/www/youtube_dl/distinfo
index e4dfe5073776..32eb9ce55533 100644
--- a/www/youtube_dl/distinfo
+++ b/www/youtube_dl/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1621180762
-SHA256 (youtube-dl-2021.06.06.tar.gz) = 3ccb0e4db9fd172338ed1c32bae0be2f716458dca4143e55732ff55260b20ac3
-SIZE (youtube-dl-2021.06.06.tar.gz) = 3336227
+TIMESTAMP = 1639680444
+SHA256 (youtube-dl-2021.12.17.tar.gz) = 9f3b99c8b778455165b4525f21505e86c7ff565f3ac319e19733d810194135df
+SIZE (youtube-dl-2021.12.17.tar.gz) = 3332299