diff --git a/net/liferea/Makefile b/net/liferea/Makefile
index d854f51534f1..525629fadda4 100644
--- a/net/liferea/Makefile
+++ b/net/liferea/Makefile
@@ -1,49 +1,48 @@
 PORTNAME=	liferea
-DISTVERSION=	1.16.7
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.16.8
 CATEGORIES=	net gnome
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/releases/download/v${DISTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	cmt@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple RSS/RDF feed reader
 WWW=		https://lzone.de/liferea/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2 LGPL3
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 LICENSE_FILE_GPLv2=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 LICENSE_FILE_LGPL3=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING.LIB
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	gsettings-desktop-schemas>=0:devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libfribidi.so:converters/fribidi \
 		libharfbuzz.so:print/harfbuzz \
 		libsoup-3.0.so:devel/libsoup3 \
 		libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so:www/webkit2-gtk@41 \
 		libpeas-2.so:devel/libpeas \
 		libjson-glib-1.0.so:devel/json-glib
 RUN_DEPENDS=	gsettings-desktop-schemas>=0:devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}libpeas>=0:devel/py-libpeas@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang cpe desktop-file-utils gettext \
 		gmake gnome libtool localbase \
 		pathfix pkgconfig python sqlite tar:bzip2
 USE_GNOME=	cairo dconf:run gtk30 gdkpixbuf intltool introspection \
 		libxslt libxml2
 
 GLIB_SCHEMAS=	net.sf.liferea.gschema.xml
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--enable-introspection
 
 # Introspection starts the program, but it may hang or crash-abort
 # without an X server because the Webkit compositor tries to initialize
 # a graphics backend
 MAKE_ENV+=	WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1
 
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 
 # stop-gap hack to accomodate glib < 2.86 and pygobject > 3.52
 post-install:
 	${MKDIR} -p "${STAGEDIR}/${LOCALBASE}/lib/girepository-1.0/"
 	${LN} -sf "../${PORTNAME}/girepository-1.0/Liferea-3.0.typelib" "${STAGEDIR}/${LOCALBASE}/lib/girepository-1.0/Liferea-3.0.typelib"
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/liferea/distinfo b/net/liferea/distinfo
index c1f7a10c9443..f09257a2b251 100644
--- a/net/liferea/distinfo
+++ b/net/liferea/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1766965224
-SHA256 (liferea-1.16.7.tar.bz2) = e7bd66c44aa73d5bee27fafc854e1baed2618953f16c138f5e158bdd75a65132
-SIZE (liferea-1.16.7.tar.bz2) = 1771078
+TIMESTAMP = 1777199483
+SHA256 (liferea-1.16.8.tar.bz2) = 0c22d6bada14a7bb633df0f0d53ffa976b739359ed0ce069c89c6d0ff0a5867b
+SIZE (liferea-1.16.8.tar.bz2) = 1780929
diff --git a/net/liferea/files/patch-js_user.js b/net/liferea/files/patch-js_user.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0d6d19dae736
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/liferea/files/patch-js_user.js
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+taken from:
+commit 000a8b75f98f2cf444694a03ca24f9f1d27d037f
+Author: Lars Windolf <lars.windolf@gmx.de>
+Date:   Sat Dec 27 23:56:49 2025 +0100
+
+    Support user.js to hook into rendering
+
+diff --git js/user.js js/user.js
+new file mode 100644
+index 00000000..16af9bdc
+--- /dev/null
++++ js/user.js
+@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
++// This is a JS hook that allows you to hack the Liferea rendering
++//
++// It is invoked by the htmlview.js rendering scripting and provides you
++// with hooks one to modify the data before rendering and one to modify
++// or enhance the rendering after it is done.
++
++// hooks to modify item info rendering
++
++window.hookPreItemRendering = (data) => {
++        return data;
++};
++window.hookPostItemRendering = () => {
++        // Modify DOM as you like
++};
++
++// hooks to modify node info rendering
++
++window.hookPreNodeRendering = (data) => {
++        return data;
++
++};
++window.hookPostNodeRendering = () => {
++        // Modify DOM as you like
++};
+\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/net/liferea/files/patch-src_Makefile.in b/net/liferea/files/patch-src_Makefile.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..88e1318367f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/liferea/files/patch-src_Makefile.in
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- src/Makefile.in.orig	2026-04-26 13:20:43.007761000 +0200
++++ src/Makefile.in	2026-04-26 13:21:19.183756000 +0200
+@@ -476,6 +476,7 @@
+ 	$(top_srcdir)/js/htmlview.js \
+ 	$(top_srcdir)/js/gopher-renderer.js \
+ 	$(top_srcdir)/js/helpers/render.js \
++	$(top_srcdir)/js/user.js \
+ 	$(top_srcdir)/js/vendor/Readability.js \
+ 	$(top_srcdir)/js/vendor/purify.min.js \
+ 	$(top_srcdir)/js/vendor/handlebars.min.js \