diff --git a/security/R-cran-sodium/Makefile b/security/R-cran-sodium/Makefile
index e68d6cad8e06..6d3276053a75 100644
--- a/security/R-cran-sodium/Makefile
+++ b/security/R-cran-sodium/Makefile
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 PORTNAME=	sodium
-DISTVERSION=	1.3.2
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.0
 CATEGORIES=	security
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	R bindings to libsodium
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sodium/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
 CRAN_DEPENDS=	libsodium>0:security/libsodium
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
+TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr \
+		R-cran-rmarkdown>0:textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist,compiles
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/security/R-cran-sodium/distinfo b/security/R-cran-sodium/distinfo
index 58773b5a39d2..c1337c342a0f 100644
--- a/security/R-cran-sodium/distinfo
+++ b/security/R-cran-sodium/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1728160350
-SHA256 (sodium_1.3.2.tar.gz) = 771bc9788aa07ef573778202ee5c4d51015eee846a4c644db3f1e952c6ff8b97
-SIZE (sodium_1.3.2.tar.gz) = 467522
+TIMESTAMP = 1734511099
+SHA256 (sodium_1.4.0.tar.gz) = 937d53d5e401f9f7007949e150d7c09c6230fb255c95116b89b5c3237c501acd
+SIZE (sodium_1.4.0.tar.gz) = 467588
diff --git a/security/R-cran-sodium/pkg-descr b/security/R-cran-sodium/pkg-descr
index 45adadc5ec3c..ba708e3f96f9 100644
--- a/security/R-cran-sodium/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/R-cran-sodium/pkg-descr
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Bindings to libsodium: a modern, easy-to-use software library for
 encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. Sodium
 uses curve25519, a state-of-the-art Diffie-Hellman function by Daniel
 Bernstein, which has become very popular after it was discovered that
 the NSA had backdoored Dual EC DRBG.
-