diff --git a/net/librdkafka/Makefile b/net/librdkafka/Makefile
index 3c5421825f54..8f2af2dc4a9a 100644
--- a/net/librdkafka/Makefile
+++ b/net/librdkafka/Makefile
@@ -1,36 +1,36 @@
 PORTNAME=	librdkafka
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	2.3.0
+DISTVERSION=	2.8.0
 CATEGORIES=	net
 
 MAINTAINER=	pizzamig@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Apache Kafka C/C++ library
 WWW=		https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BROKEN_mips=		fails to build: undefined reference to __sync_add_and_fetch_4
 BROKEN_mips64=		fails to build: undefined reference to __sync_add_and_fetch_4
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash \
 	${LOCALBASE}/include/rapidjson/schema.h:devel/rapidjson
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
 	liblz4.so:archivers/liblz4 \
 	libzstd.so:archivers/zstd
 
 USES=		compiler:c11 gmake localbase:ldflags ssl
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 
 GH_ACCOUNT=	edenhill
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 MAKE_ARGS=	pkgconfigdir=${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--disable-sasl \
 					--enable-ssl \
 					--enable-strip
 LDFLAGS+=      -Wl,--undefined-version
 
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/librdkafka/distinfo b/net/librdkafka/distinfo
index fac6759e5e54..fdf90a484dc3 100644
--- a/net/librdkafka/distinfo
+++ b/net/librdkafka/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1702746030
-SHA256 (edenhill-librdkafka-v2.3.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 2d49c35c77eeb3d42fa61c43757fcbb6a206daa560247154e60642bcdcc14d12
-SIZE (edenhill-librdkafka-v2.3.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 4380862
+TIMESTAMP = 1737476969
+SHA256 (edenhill-librdkafka-v2.8.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 5bd1c46f63265f31c6bfcedcde78703f77d28238eadf23821c2b43fc30be3e25
+SIZE (edenhill-librdkafka-v2.8.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 4780448