diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/Makefile b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/Makefile
index 9d4d865f0802..0dc6ef5135eb 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	github-linguist
-PORTVERSION=	7.6.1
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTVERSION=	7.9.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/distinfo b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/distinfo
index 0e522d3a2609..6ca1ab507bd8 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1574432032
-SHA256 (rubygem/github-linguist-7.6.1.gem) = 7eaa299cde5e9d75c94140bf31649387b204ad828bc4cce15a7b97546110ae15
-SIZE (rubygem/github-linguist-7.6.1.gem) = 2531840
+TIMESTAMP = 1590216058
+SHA256 (rubygem/github-linguist-7.9.0.gem) = 2af8031c9c678db0aaf51e0a81be58c5146372ddcf2ee1cd432251845a011c66
+SIZE (rubygem/github-linguist-7.9.0.gem) = 2678272