diff --git a/multimedia/libass/Makefile b/multimedia/libass/Makefile
index cfe1a97f6a80..8454b599829c 100644
--- a/multimedia/libass/Makefile
+++ b/multimedia/libass/Makefile
@@ -1,33 +1,39 @@
 PORTNAME=	libass
-DISTVERSION=	0.16.0
+DISTVERSION=	0.17.0
 CATEGORIES=	multimedia devel
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/${PORTNAME}/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${DISTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	multimedia@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Portable ASS/SSA subtitle renderer
 WWW=		https://github.com/libass/libass
 
 LICENSE=	ISCL
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libfreetype.so:print/freetype2 \
 		libharfbuzz.so:print/harfbuzz \
 		libfribidi.so:converters/fribidi \
 		libfontconfig.so:x11-fonts/fontconfig
 
 USES=		autoreconf compiler:c11 cpe iconv libtool pathfix pkgconfig tar:xz
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 LDFLAGS_i386=	-Wl,-znotext
 CPE_VENDOR=	libass_project
 
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=	UNIBREAK
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=UNIBREAK
 OPTIONS_DEFINE_amd64=	ASM
 OPTIONS_DEFINE_i386=	ASM
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT_amd64=	ASM
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT_i386=	ASM
 
 ASM_BUILD_DEPENDS=nasm:devel/nasm
 ASM_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=asm
 
+UNIBREAK_DESC=		Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm support
+UNIBREAK_LIB_DEPENDS=	libunibreak.so:textproc/libunibreak
+UNIBREAK_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	libunibreak
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/multimedia/libass/distinfo b/multimedia/libass/distinfo
index 0ae7ed353a1b..056990642ef1 100644
--- a/multimedia/libass/distinfo
+++ b/multimedia/libass/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1652364177
-SHA256 (libass-0.16.0.tar.xz) = 5dbde9e22339119cf8eed59eea6c623a0746ef5a90b689e68a090109078e3c08
-SIZE (libass-0.16.0.tar.xz) = 396304
+TIMESTAMP = 1605052043
+SHA256 (libass-0.17.0.tar.xz) = 971e2e1db59d440f88516dcd1187108419a370e64863f70687da599fdf66cc1a
+SIZE (libass-0.17.0.tar.xz) = 403780
diff --git a/multimedia/libass/pkg-plist b/multimedia/libass/pkg-plist
index ff170cd86836..87916fdb6b5b 100644
--- a/multimedia/libass/pkg-plist
+++ b/multimedia/libass/pkg-plist
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 include/ass/ass.h
 include/ass/ass_types.h
 lib/libass.a
 lib/libass.so
 lib/libass.so.9
-lib/libass.so.9.1.4
+lib/libass.so.9.2.0
 libdata/pkgconfig/libass.pc