diff --git a/net/liferea/Makefile b/net/liferea/Makefile
index 525629fadda4..36f592b8aba7 100644
--- a/net/liferea/Makefile
+++ b/net/liferea/Makefile
@@ -1,48 +1,48 @@
 PORTNAME=	liferea
-DISTVERSION=	1.16.8
+DISTVERSION=	1.16.9
 CATEGORIES=	net gnome
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/releases/download/v${DISTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	cmt@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple RSS/RDF feed reader
 WWW=		https://lzone.de/liferea/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2 LGPL3
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 LICENSE_FILE_GPLv2=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 LICENSE_FILE_LGPL3=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING.LIB
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	gsettings-desktop-schemas>=0:devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libfribidi.so:converters/fribidi \
 		libharfbuzz.so:print/harfbuzz \
 		libsoup-3.0.so:devel/libsoup3 \
 		libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so:www/webkit2-gtk@41 \
 		libpeas-2.so:devel/libpeas \
 		libjson-glib-1.0.so:devel/json-glib
 RUN_DEPENDS=	gsettings-desktop-schemas>=0:devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}libpeas>=0:devel/py-libpeas@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang cpe desktop-file-utils gettext \
 		gmake gnome libtool localbase \
 		pathfix pkgconfig python sqlite tar:bzip2
 USE_GNOME=	cairo dconf:run gtk30 gdkpixbuf intltool introspection \
 		libxslt libxml2
 
 GLIB_SCHEMAS=	net.sf.liferea.gschema.xml
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--enable-introspection
 
 # Introspection starts the program, but it may hang or crash-abort
 # without an X server because the Webkit compositor tries to initialize
 # a graphics backend
 MAKE_ENV+=	WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1
 
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 
 # stop-gap hack to accomodate glib < 2.86 and pygobject > 3.52
 post-install:
 	${MKDIR} -p "${STAGEDIR}/${LOCALBASE}/lib/girepository-1.0/"
 	${LN} -sf "../${PORTNAME}/girepository-1.0/Liferea-3.0.typelib" "${STAGEDIR}/${LOCALBASE}/lib/girepository-1.0/Liferea-3.0.typelib"
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/liferea/distinfo b/net/liferea/distinfo
index f09257a2b251..92ece2093492 100644
--- a/net/liferea/distinfo
+++ b/net/liferea/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1777199483
-SHA256 (liferea-1.16.8.tar.bz2) = 0c22d6bada14a7bb633df0f0d53ffa976b739359ed0ce069c89c6d0ff0a5867b
-SIZE (liferea-1.16.8.tar.bz2) = 1780929
+TIMESTAMP = 1777726153
+SHA256 (liferea-1.16.9.tar.bz2) = 738c924e501f2f511bb35fa92d97792a274edd4705f472a157f46918b45295c6
+SIZE (liferea-1.16.9.tar.bz2) = 1781829