diff --git a/science/libcifpp/Makefile b/science/libcifpp/Makefile
index f67cd7af9cd3..ce6974e66856 100644
--- a/science/libcifpp/Makefile
+++ b/science/libcifpp/Makefile
@@ -1,41 +1,40 @@
 PORTNAME=	libcifpp
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	7.0.7
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	7.0.8
 CATEGORIES=	science
 MASTER_SITES=	https://files.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/data/monomers/:components
 DISTFILES=	components.cif.gz:components
 DIST_SUBDIR=	${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}
 EXTRACT_ONLY=	${GH_ACCOUNT}-${GH_PROJECT}-${DISTVERSIONFULL}_GH0${EXTRACT_SUFX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Library to manipulate mmCIF and PDB files
 WWW=		https://github.com/PDB-REDO/libcifpp
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	catch>0:devel/catch
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libboost_iostreams.so:devel/boost-libs
 RUN_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash
 
 USES=		cmake:testing compiler:c++20-lang eigen:3 shebangfix
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	PDB-REDO
 
 SHEBANG_FILES=	tools/update-libcifpp-data.in
 
 CMAKE_ON=	BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
 CMAKE_ARGS=	-DDISTDIR_FULL=${DISTDIR}/${DIST_SUBDIR}
 CMAKE_TESTING_ON=	ENABLE_TESTING
 
 post-install:
 	@cd ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX} && \
 		${RM} -r var etc/libcifpp etc/periodic
 	@${RM} -r ${STAGEDIR}/var/cache/libcifpp
 	# workaround for https://github.com/PDB-REDO/libcifpp/issues/65
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -i '' -e 's|;std::atomic||' ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/cmake/cifpp/cifpp-targets.cmake
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/science/libcifpp/distinfo b/science/libcifpp/distinfo
index a8391213a391..36ccc806dc44 100644
--- a/science/libcifpp/distinfo
+++ b/science/libcifpp/distinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1729817543
-SHA256 (libcifpp-7.0.7/components.cif.gz) = 938fb58f91fec0e145b6d33bb01b752a45a77c8903f71845f79cd8e1e4a839a8
-SIZE (libcifpp-7.0.7/components.cif.gz) = 102898823
-SHA256 (libcifpp-7.0.7/PDB-REDO-libcifpp-v7.0.7_GH0.tar.gz) = 0e88805b4704d4a899aeee6df5aaace1d6b47d8ccb3a3f39b35bc5a3997c09ac
-SIZE (libcifpp-7.0.7/PDB-REDO-libcifpp-v7.0.7_GH0.tar.gz) = 2648232
+TIMESTAMP = 1736722754
+SHA256 (libcifpp-7.0.8/components.cif.gz) = 6c5174e7fdc80bdba9ebba72ae789ad5ca9f47b6885d5f6936c2656eff351847
+SIZE (libcifpp-7.0.8/components.cif.gz) = 104745353
+SHA256 (libcifpp-7.0.8/PDB-REDO-libcifpp-v7.0.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 2297e6649a4f71caf9da5f1d97f59512e7324bb62083bb5b08eb00c1c0385cb3
+SIZE (libcifpp-7.0.8/PDB-REDO-libcifpp-v7.0.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 2648244
diff --git a/science/libcifpp/pkg-plist b/science/libcifpp/pkg-plist
index 11bd02e3c8bf..7cc58395cd24 100644
--- a/science/libcifpp/pkg-plist
+++ b/science/libcifpp/pkg-plist
@@ -1,41 +1,41 @@
 etc/cron.weekly/update-libcifpp-data
 %%ETCDIR%%.conf
 include/cif++.hpp
 include/cif++/atom_type.hpp
 include/cif++/category.hpp
 include/cif++/compound.hpp
 include/cif++/condition.hpp
 include/cif++/datablock.hpp
 include/cif++/dictionary_parser.hpp
 include/cif++/exports.hpp
 include/cif++/file.hpp
 include/cif++/format.hpp
 include/cif++/forward_decl.hpp
 include/cif++/gzio.hpp
 include/cif++/item.hpp
 include/cif++/iterator.hpp
 include/cif++/matrix.hpp
 include/cif++/model.hpp
 include/cif++/parser.hpp
 include/cif++/pdb.hpp
 include/cif++/pdb/cif2pdb.hpp
 include/cif++/pdb/io.hpp
 include/cif++/pdb/pdb2cif.hpp
 include/cif++/pdb/tls.hpp
 include/cif++/point.hpp
 include/cif++/row.hpp
 include/cif++/symmetry.hpp
 include/cif++/text.hpp
 include/cif++/utilities.hpp
 include/cif++/validate.hpp
 lib/cmake/cifpp/cifpp-config-version.cmake
 lib/cmake/cifpp/cifpp-config.cmake
 lib/cmake/cifpp/cifpp-targets-%%CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE%%.cmake
 lib/cmake/cifpp/cifpp-targets.cmake
 lib/libcifpp.so
 lib/libcifpp.so.7.0
-lib/libcifpp.so.7.0.7
+lib/libcifpp.so.7.0.8
 %%DATADIR%%/components.cif
 %%DATADIR%%/mmcif_ddl.dic
 %%DATADIR%%/mmcif_ma.dic
 %%DATADIR%%/mmcif_pdbx.dic