diff --git a/sysutils/rubygem-facter/Makefile b/sysutils/rubygem-facter/Makefile
index 208018ef3196..0537c1af8936 100644
--- a/sysutils/rubygem-facter/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/rubygem-facter/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
 PORTNAME=	facter
-PORTVERSION=	4.6.1
+PORTVERSION=	4.7.0
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
 MAINTAINER=	puppet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from OS
 WWW=		https://puppetlabs.com/facter
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-hocon>=1.3<2:devel/rubygem-hocon \
 		rubygem-thor>=1.0.1<2.0:devel/rubygem-thor
 # Soft dependencies that resolve more FreeBSD facts
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	rubygem-ruby-augeas>0:textproc/rubygem-ruby-augeas \
 		rubygem-ffi>=1.0:devel/rubygem-ffi \
 		rubygem-rexml>0:textproc/rubygem-rexml \
 		rubygem-sys-filesystem>0:sysutils/rubygem-sys-filesystem
 
 USES=		cpe gem
 CPE_VENDOR=	puppet
 
 CONFLICTS_INSTALL=	facter # bin/facter
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/facter ${GEMS_DIR}/facter
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 post-install:
 	(cd ${WRKSRC}/lib/facter/facts/freebsd && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} "ec2_metadata.rb ec2_userdata.rb ipaddress_interfaces.rb ipaddress6_interfaces.rb" ${STAGEDIR}/${PREFIX}/${GEMS_DIR}/facter-${PORTVERSION}/lib/facter/facts/freebsd)
 	${RLN} ${STAGEDIR}/${PREFIX}/${GEMS_LIB_DIR} ${STAGEDIR}/${PREFIX}/${GEMS_DIR}/facter
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/sysutils/rubygem-facter/distinfo b/sysutils/rubygem-facter/distinfo
index e76a6362c21b..405bda34c291 100644
--- a/sysutils/rubygem-facter/distinfo
+++ b/sysutils/rubygem-facter/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1709663078
-SHA256 (rubygem/facter-4.6.1.gem) = 479971e82de8b084f8dd42ad7552fbefc81846507aa80c67ca0d10c75ca3b75f
-SIZE (rubygem/facter-4.6.1.gem) = 165888
+TIMESTAMP = 1713224436
+SHA256 (rubygem/facter-4.7.0.gem) = f02410e602062219430eaf881ece97c43b17c51942bcca39d0a7b98ae5df2f2e
+SIZE (rubygem/facter-4.7.0.gem) = 170496
diff --git a/sysutils/rubygem-facter/files/patch-facter.gemspec b/sysutils/rubygem-facter/files/patch-facter.gemspec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1d455e36d7d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/rubygem-facter/files/patch-facter.gemspec
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- facter.gemspec.orig	2024-04-16 05:25:30 UTC
++++ facter.gemspec
+@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+   s.add_development_dependency(%q<webmock>.freeze, ["~> 3.12".freeze])
+   s.add_development_dependency(%q<yard>.freeze, ["~> 0.9".freeze])
+   s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<hocon>.freeze, ["~> 1.3".freeze])
+-  s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<thor>.freeze, [">= 1.0.1".freeze, "< 1.3".freeze])
++  s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<thor>.freeze, [">= 1.0.1".freeze, "< 2.0".freeze])
+ end
+