diff --git a/devel/rubygem-rugged/Makefile b/devel/rubygem-rugged/Makefile
index 1e9010ebd113..cdcd6828eeb7 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-rugged/Makefile
+++ b/devel/rubygem-rugged/Makefile
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 # Also update devel/libgit2, devel/libgit2-glib, devel/py-pygit2
 
 PORTNAME=	rugged
-PORTVERSION=	1.9.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.9.6
 CATEGORIES=	devel rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
 MAINTAINER=	mfechner@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Ruby bindings to the libgit2 library
 WWW=		https://github.com/libgit2/rugged
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 # switch to bundled libgit2 version as rugged does not support 1.8 version from ports (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282593)
 #BUILD_DEPENDS=	libgit2>=${PORTVERSION:R}:devel/libgit2
 #LIB_DEPENDS=	libgit2.so:devel/libgit2 \
 #		libgmp.so:math/gmp
 #CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--use-system-libraries
 #USES=		gem pkgconfig
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libssh2.so:security/libssh2
 
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-ssh
 USES=		cmake:indirect gem pkgconfig ssl
 
 post-install:
 	${RM} -r ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/${GEM_LIB_DIR}/vendor/libgit2/build
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-rugged/distinfo b/devel/rubygem-rugged/distinfo
index c03fe3a670e7..2a8dcc5d4b80 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-rugged/distinfo
+++ b/devel/rubygem-rugged/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1773988962
-SHA256 (rubygem/rugged-1.9.0.gem) = 7faaa912c5888d6e348d20fa31209b6409f1574346b1b80e309dbc7e8d63efac
-SIZE (rubygem/rugged-1.9.0.gem) = 1889280
+TIMESTAMP = 1787214209
+SHA256 (rubygem/rugged-1.9.6.gem) = c6e45250e51cdf19f6130d050e280ba8d6af475d4c76580f91377a59fe23d3c7
+SIZE (rubygem/rugged-1.9.6.gem) = 1986048