diff --git a/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/Makefile b/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/Makefile
index 18abe1c65a11..c7b499035876 100644
--- a/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/Makefile
+++ b/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	fcitx5-mcbopomofo
-DISTVERSION=	2.7
+DISTVERSION=	2.8
 CATEGORIES=	chinese textproc
 
 MAINTAINER=	lwhsu@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	McBopomofo for Fcitx5
 WWW=		https://github.com/openvanilla/fcitx5-mcbopomofo
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libFcitx5Core.so:textproc/fcitx5 \
 		libfmt.so:devel/libfmt \
-		libicuuc.so:devel/icu
+		libicuuc.so:devel/icu \
+		libjson-c.so:devel/json-c
 
 USES=		cmake compiler:c++17-lang gettext-tools kde:5 pkgconfig
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	openvanilla
 
 USE_KDE=	ecm
 
 CMAKE_OFF=	ENABLE_TEST
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/distinfo b/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/distinfo
index ba5b65599f5b..5aecd1f4e47f 100644
--- a/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/distinfo
+++ b/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1714963387
-SHA256 (openvanilla-fcitx5-mcbopomofo-2.7_GH0.tar.gz) = 9dc6ea3e6d70f5950437679b21d1956bfdc755a2c72a50c4eec125fcb643ef8e
-SIZE (openvanilla-fcitx5-mcbopomofo-2.7_GH0.tar.gz) = 2711754
+TIMESTAMP = 1729599041
+SHA256 (openvanilla-fcitx5-mcbopomofo-2.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 2069466aa9c8d96e488b4dd80b7ca849b75a323918b537c62da060507ab7b6cc
+SIZE (openvanilla-fcitx5-mcbopomofo-2.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 2723875
diff --git a/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/files/patch-src_KeyHandler.cpp b/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/files/patch-src_KeyHandler.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a06d228faae..000000000000
--- a/chinese/fcitx5-mcbopomofo/files/patch-src_KeyHandler.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- src/KeyHandler.cpp.orig	2024-05-06 03:07:04 UTC
-+++ src/KeyHandler.cpp
-@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
- 
- #include <algorithm>
- #include <chrono>
-+#include <sstream>
- #include <utility>
- 
- #include "ChineseNumbers/ChineseNumbers.h"