diff --git a/japanese/canna-lib/Makefile b/japanese/canna-lib/Makefile
index ab8ec3fbe729..b950b68ed7ae 100644
--- a/japanese/canna-lib/Makefile
+++ b/japanese/canna-lib/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	canna
-PORTVERSION=	3.7p5
+PORTVERSION=	3.8
 CATEGORIES=	japanese
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/canna-input/canna/releases/download/release-${PORTVERSION}/
 PKGNAMESUFFIX=	-lib
 DISTNAME=	Canna${PORTVERSION:S/.//g}
 
 MAINTAINER=	mce@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Kana-to-Kanji conversion system, library part
 WWW=		https://canna-input.github.io/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYRIGHT
 
-USES=		imake:notall,noman tar:bzip2
+USES=		imake:notall,noman tar:xz
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=	yes
 ALL_TARGET=	canna
 INSTALL_TARGET=	instsgs
 
 post-install:
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/lib*.so.1
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/japanese/canna-lib/distinfo b/japanese/canna-lib/distinfo
index 56a3a8e198cc..dafe00fa29a3 100644
--- a/japanese/canna-lib/distinfo
+++ b/japanese/canna-lib/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1760647038
-SHA256 (Canna37p5.tar.bz2) = 892bc8adac9fac7972dbcc6554d70054a3a36270ed1cff66b34965db1a97941c
-SIZE (Canna37p5.tar.bz2) = 1294016
+TIMESTAMP = 1778340164
+SHA256 (Canna38.tar.xz) = a29e71735cb53405d4532b5878404d2e93fdddcbf507469bb8f4f898962cafe8
+SIZE (Canna38.tar.xz) = 2060780
diff --git a/japanese/canna-lib/pkg-descr b/japanese/canna-lib/pkg-descr
index a5978bf8a4d4..72298a4e13b6 100644
--- a/japanese/canna-lib/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/canna-lib/pkg-descr
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
-Canna is a Kana-Kanji conversion server. It supports
-Mule(Multi-lingual extention Emacs), kinput2 X11 input method, etc.
+Canna is a Japanese input system available in Free Software.
+Canna provides a unified user interface for inputing Japanese.
+
+Canna supports Emacs, kinput2 and others. All of these tools can be used
+by a single customization file, romaji-to-kana conversion rules and
+conversion dictionaries, and input Japanese in the same way.
+
+Canna converts kana to kanji based on a client-server model and supports
+automatic kana-to-kanji conversion.