diff --git a/devel/oniguruma/Makefile b/devel/oniguruma/Makefile
index 606901aa179c..016e30a3b790 100644
--- a/devel/oniguruma/Makefile
+++ b/devel/oniguruma/Makefile
@@ -1,42 +1,42 @@
 # Created by: Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	oniguruma
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	6.9.6
+DISTVERSION=	6.9.7
 CATEGORIES=	devel textproc
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Regular expressions library compatible with POSIX/GNU/Perl
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 USES=			autoreconf 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
 
 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 89fd151a4f2e..85c762799f46 100644
--- a/devel/oniguruma/distinfo
+++ b/devel/oniguruma/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1604676138
-SHA256 (kkos-oniguruma-v6.9.6_GH0.tar.gz) = aec9f6902ad8b7bb53b2c55d04686ea75da89a06694836b0362cb206578dfe89
-SIZE (kkos-oniguruma-v6.9.6_GH0.tar.gz) = 621239
+TIMESTAMP = 1618515957
+SHA256 (kkos-oniguruma-v6.9.7_GH0.tar.gz) = efbcdc109de940ac88e56f614195886b9f4f8745a4f57e3c1f8b563ea9519d09
+SIZE (kkos-oniguruma-v6.9.7_GH0.tar.gz) = 631073
diff --git a/devel/oniguruma/pkg-plist b/devel/oniguruma/pkg-plist
index 870240b4ba22..4fc80e1def2e 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.5.1.0
+lib/libonig.so.5.2.0
 libdata/pkgconfig/oniguruma.pc