diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-gepub/Makefile b/textproc/rubygem-gepub/Makefile
index f90911e3e38f..f6989888d537 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-gepub/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-gepub/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	gepub
 PORTVERSION=	1.0.15
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
 MAINTAINER=	doceng@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Ruby generic EPUB parser/generator
 WWW=		https://github.com/skoji/gepub
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-nokogiri>=1.8.2<2.0:textproc/rubygem-nokogiri \
-		rubygem-rubyzip>=1.1.1<2.4:archivers/rubygem-rubyzip
+		rubygem-rubyzip>=1.1.1<2.5:archivers/rubygem-rubyzip
 
 USES=		gem
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/genepub \
 		bin/gepuber
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-gepub/files/patch-gemspec b/textproc/rubygem-gepub/files/patch-gemspec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1104ce47215f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-gepub/files/patch-gemspec
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Obtained from:	https://github.com/skoji/gepub/commit/ac81cedb27734b266fd698dd988c1f75a19b064a
+
+--- gepub.gemspec.orig	2025-07-30 06:19:13 UTC
++++ gepub.gemspec
+@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+   s.specification_version = 4
+ 
+   s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<nokogiri>.freeze, [">= 1.8.2".freeze, "< 2.0".freeze])
+-  s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<rubyzip>.freeze, ["> 1.1.1".freeze, "< 2.4".freeze])
++  s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<rubyzip>.freeze, ["> 1.1.1".freeze, "< 2.5".freeze])
+   s.add_development_dependency(%q<epubcheck-ruby>.freeze, [">= 0".freeze])
+   s.add_development_dependency(%q<rake>.freeze, [">= 0".freeze])
+   s.add_development_dependency(%q<rspec>.freeze, [">= 0".freeze])