diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/Makefile b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/Makefile
index 75987224622c..7ac0e30dce6c 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 PORTNAME=	markdown
-PORTVERSION=	1.1
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTVERSION=	1.6
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	tota@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Markdown Rendering for R
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/markdown/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 
-CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-xfun>0:misc/R-cran-xfun \
-		R-cran-mime>=0.3:misc/R-cran-mime
+CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-commonmark>=1.9.0:textproc/R-cran-commonmark \
+		R-cran-xfun>=0.38:misc/R-cran-xfun
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist,compiles
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/distinfo b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/distinfo
index 9361accbc11d..e42cebcf3453 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1565620048
-SHA256 (markdown_1.1.tar.gz) = 8d8cd47472a37362e615dbb8865c3780d7b7db694d59050e19312f126e5efc1b
-SIZE (markdown_1.1.tar.gz) = 81050
+TIMESTAMP = 1682488963
+SHA256 (markdown_1.6.tar.gz) = 46228b8d8161ae4b651b4662364eb35a3b91e6a7a457fe99d0e709f2a6f559ea
+SIZE (markdown_1.6.tar.gz) = 107405
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/pkg-descr b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/pkg-descr
index 2e1c4db71b42..9369ac0261ac 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-markdown/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-markdown/pkg-descr
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
-Provides R bindings to the 'Sundown' 'Markdown' rendering library
-(https://github.com/vmg/sundown). 'Markdown' is a plain-text
-formatting syntax that can be converted to 'XHTML' or other formats.
+Render Markdown to full and lightweight HTML/'LaTeX' documents with
+the 'commonmark' package. It also supports features that are missing
+in 'commonmark', such as raw HTML/'LaTeX' blocks, 'LaTeX' math,
+superscripts, subscripts, footnotes, element attributes, appendices,
+and fenced 'Divs'. With additional JavaScript and CSS, it can also
+create HTML slides and articles.