diff --git a/textproc/expat2/Makefile b/textproc/expat2/Makefile
index 03d424ceab26..79821065b82c 100644
--- a/textproc/expat2/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/expat2/Makefile
@@ -1,39 +1,39 @@
 PORTNAME=	expat
-DISTVERSION=	2.8.0
+DISTVERSION=	2.8.1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_${DISTVERSION:S|.|_|g}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	desktop@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	XML 1.0 parser written in C
 WWW=		https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 TEST_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash
 
 USES=		cpe libtool pathfix python:test tar:xz
 CPE_VENDOR=	libexpat_project
 CPE_PRODUCT=	libexpat
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 TEST_TARGET=	check
 
 PLIST_SUB=	EXPAT_VERSION=${DISTVERSION}
 
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--without-docbook \
 		--without-examples
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS STATIC TEST
 OPTIONS_SUB=	yes
 
 STATIC_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	static
 
 TEST_USES=	compiler:c++11-lang shebangfix
 SHEBANG_FILES=	test-driver-wrapper.sh tests/udiffer.py tests/xmltest.sh
 TEST_CONFIGURE_WITH=	tests
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/expat2/distinfo b/textproc/expat2/distinfo
index 0399124ef24e..e45822eef774 100644
--- a/textproc/expat2/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/expat2/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1777100744
-SHA256 (expat-2.8.0.tar.xz) = a37bfae0aa9775bd8521ebd85dc456d486f0ff31138f6c91fd902ea732624542
-SIZE (expat-2.8.0.tar.xz) = 511328
+TIMESTAMP = 1778534912
+SHA256 (expat-2.8.1.tar.xz) = 10b195ee78160a908388180a8fe3603d4e9a12f4755fbf5f3816b23a9d750da0
+SIZE (expat-2.8.1.tar.xz) = 512224
diff --git a/textproc/expat2/pkg-plist b/textproc/expat2/pkg-plist
index 56b3c18c1752..d428bacf86b9 100644
--- a/textproc/expat2/pkg-plist
+++ b/textproc/expat2/pkg-plist
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 bin/xmlwf
 include/expat.h
 include/expat_config.h
 include/expat_external.h
 lib/cmake/expat-%%EXPAT_VERSION%%/expat-config-version.cmake
 lib/cmake/expat-%%EXPAT_VERSION%%/expat-config.cmake
 lib/cmake/expat-%%EXPAT_VERSION%%/expat-noconfig.cmake
 lib/cmake/expat-%%EXPAT_VERSION%%/expat.cmake
 %%STATIC%%lib/libexpat.a
 lib/libexpat.so
 lib/libexpat.so.1
-lib/libexpat.so.1.12.0
+lib/libexpat.so.1.12.1
 libdata/pkgconfig/expat.pc
 share/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz
 %%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/AUTHORS
 %%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/changelog