diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown/Makefile b/textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown/Makefile
index 046bbac9571e..98003ea3f4f4 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	rmarkdown
-DISTVERSION=	2.25
+DISTVERSION=	2.26
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Dynamic Documents for R
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rmarkdown/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 
 CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-bslib>=0.2.5.1:www/R-cran-bslib \
 		R-cran-evaluate>=0.13:devel/R-cran-evaluate \
 		R-cran-fontawesome>=0.5.0:devel/R-cran-fontawesome \
 		R-cran-htmltools>=0.5.1:textproc/R-cran-htmltools \
 		R-cran-jquerylib>0:www/R-cran-jquerylib \
 		R-cran-jsonlite>0:converters/R-cran-jsonlite \
-		R-cran-knitr>=1.22:print/R-cran-knitr \
+		R-cran-knitr>=1.43:print/R-cran-knitr \
 		R-cran-stringr>=1.2.0:textproc/R-cran-stringr \
 		R-cran-tinytex>=0.31:print/R-cran-tinytex \
 		R-cran-xfun>=0.36:misc/R-cran-xfun \
 		R-cran-yaml>=2.1.19:textproc/R-cran-yaml
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS} \
 		hs-pandoc>=1.14:textproc/hs-pandoc
 TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown/distinfo b/textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown/distinfo
index 9f46837924db..3a0f4691f4db 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1695196436
-SHA256 (rmarkdown_2.25.tar.gz) = 06e4662666fe018fbe3bef3531280a461c7bc24bb00f34b9d4c7b08d52210155
-SIZE (rmarkdown_2.25.tar.gz) = 2188934
+TIMESTAMP = 1709813052
+SHA256 (rmarkdown_2.26.tar.gz) = 8f8c170dfeb91f550d893aef0971b7390a23d3ce9a10fe2df94d5ee38314dfe0
+SIZE (rmarkdown_2.26.tar.gz) = 2189506