diff --git a/textproc/sphinxsearch/Makefile b/textproc/sphinxsearch/Makefile
index 13b727a33b16..044eec516bb4 100644
--- a/textproc/sphinxsearch/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/sphinxsearch/Makefile
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 # See http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/articles/sphinxse.html
 
 PORTNAME=	sphinxsearch
-PORTVERSION=	0.9.8
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	0.9.8.1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc databases
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/
 DISTNAME=	sphinx-${PORTVERSION}
diff --git a/textproc/sphinxsearch/distinfo b/textproc/sphinxsearch/distinfo
index c5d07cec6aba..45e475247853 100644
--- a/textproc/sphinxsearch/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/sphinxsearch/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (sphinx-0.9.8.tar.gz) = 347e547b79b733778d7553ede34e0aac
-SHA256 (sphinx-0.9.8.tar.gz) = 86de861550fc7b119b3cbe63a34bad32ac771f44c930d229775ac124c83571d9
-SIZE (sphinx-0.9.8.tar.gz) = 728864
+MD5 (sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz) = 428a14df41fb425e664d9e2d6178c037
+SHA256 (sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz) = ef69b2b52381173da92bf2df79dfc8c5271c4b3f156c356bb4ef82ca035dc013
+SIZE (sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz) = 949660