diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/Makefile b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/Makefile
index 7ac0e30dce6c..93c3a7f185c3 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/Makefile
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 PORTNAME=	markdown
-PORTVERSION=	1.6
+PORTVERSION=	1.7
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	tota@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Markdown Rendering for R
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/markdown/
 
-LICENSE=	GPLv2
+LICENSE=	MIT
 
 CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-commonmark>=1.9.0:textproc/R-cran-commonmark \
 		R-cran-xfun>=0.38:misc/R-cran-xfun
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist,compiles
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/distinfo b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/distinfo
index e42cebcf3453..61c9662409fd 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1682488963
-SHA256 (markdown_1.6.tar.gz) = 46228b8d8161ae4b651b4662364eb35a3b91e6a7a457fe99d0e709f2a6f559ea
-SIZE (markdown_1.6.tar.gz) = 107405
+TIMESTAMP = 1684339413
+SHA256 (markdown_1.7.tar.gz) = cb2b9a4752174406b3b3557b0da943ab37041e6b1d993281d59614bb2acdcfb1
+SIZE (markdown_1.7.tar.gz) = 107936