diff --git a/devel/oniguruma/Makefile b/devel/oniguruma/Makefile
index 033ce856fd72..f8d1ded4d911 100644
--- a/devel/oniguruma/Makefile
+++ b/devel/oniguruma/Makefile
@@ -1,43 +1,43 @@
 # Created by: Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	oniguruma
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	6.9.7.1
+DISTVERSION=	6.9.8
 CATEGORIES=	devel textproc
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Regular expressions library compatible with POSIX/GNU/Perl
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 USES=			autoreconf cpe pathfix libtool  # configure provided in the tarball breaks: https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/73
 USE_GITHUB=		yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=		kkos
 GNU_CONFIGURE=		yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=		--disable-static --enable-posix-api=yes
 PATHFIX_MAKEFILEIN=	Makefile.am
 USE_LDCONFIG=		yes
 INSTALL_TARGET=		install-strip
 TEST_WRKSRC=		${WRKSRC}/test
 TEST_TARGET=		test
 CPE_VENDOR=		oniguruma_project
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=			STATISTICS DOCS EXAMPLES
 STATISTICS_DESC=		Take matching time statistical data (debug feature)
 
 STATISTICS_CONFIGURE_WITH=	statistics
 
 PORTDOCS=	*
 PORTEXAMPLES=	*
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${INSTALL_DATA} HISTORY README ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	cd ${WRKSRC}/doc && ${INSTALL_DATA} * ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 
 post-install-EXAMPLES-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${EXAMPLESDIR}
 	cd ${WRKSRC}/sample && ${INSTALL_DATA} *.c ${STAGEDIR}${EXAMPLESDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/oniguruma/distinfo b/devel/oniguruma/distinfo
index b357f70e6948..fcff1569c091 100644
--- a/devel/oniguruma/distinfo
+++ b/devel/oniguruma/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1618621471
-SHA256 (kkos-oniguruma-v6.9.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 8f9a75b7d90dde0942c30a8b3c17889b2fecf190690988cc381c4e525cbbd22b
-SIZE (kkos-oniguruma-v6.9.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 631096
+TIMESTAMP = 1651255372
+SHA256 (kkos-oniguruma-v6.9.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 26372720bab6733c869a9eb69377f73971138dc5e3eff4a81f5ba8aea5435fb2
+SIZE (kkos-oniguruma-v6.9.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 638737
diff --git a/devel/oniguruma/pkg-plist b/devel/oniguruma/pkg-plist
index 4fc80e1def2e..88704965793c 100644
--- a/devel/oniguruma/pkg-plist
+++ b/devel/oniguruma/pkg-plist
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 bin/onig-config
 include/oniggnu.h
 include/onigposix.h
 include/oniguruma.h
 lib/libonig.so
 lib/libonig.so.5
-lib/libonig.so.5.2.0
+lib/libonig.so.5.3.0
 libdata/pkgconfig/oniguruma.pc