diff --git a/astro/cfitsio/Makefile b/astro/cfitsio/Makefile
index 55ffb2044eb0..a5af500577eb 100644
--- a/astro/cfitsio/Makefile
+++ b/astro/cfitsio/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	cfitsio
-PORTVERSION=	3.470
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	3.490
 CATEGORIES=	astro
 MASTER_SITES=	https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/ \
 		https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/oldvers/ \
@@ -18,8 +17,6 @@ COMMENT=	Library for reading and writing files in FITS data format
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
 		libf2c.so:lang/f2c
 
-OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
-
 USES=		localbase pkgconfig
 
 ALL_TARGET=	libcfitsio.a shared
@@ -30,9 +27,11 @@ USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 PLIST_SUB=	SHLIB_MAJOR=${SHLIB_MAJOR} \
 		SHLIB_MINOR=${SHLIB_MINOR}
 
-SHLIB_MAJOR=	8
+SHLIB_MAJOR=	9
 SHLIB_MINOR=	${PORTVERSION:S|0$||}
 
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
+
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|<malloc.h>|<stdlib.h>|' ${WRKSRC}/*.[chl] ${WRKSRC}/zlib/*.h
 
diff --git a/astro/cfitsio/distinfo b/astro/cfitsio/distinfo
index e37f55fda77c..d49da5cb7f9a 100644
--- a/astro/cfitsio/distinfo
+++ b/astro/cfitsio/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1564157937
-SHA256 (cfitsio-3.47.tar.gz) = 418516f10ee1e0f1b520926eeca6b77ce639bed88804c7c545e74f26b3edf4ef
-SIZE (cfitsio-3.47.tar.gz) = 4853990
+TIMESTAMP = 1606348502
+SHA256 (cfitsio-3.49.tar.gz) = 5b65a20d5c53494ec8f638267fca4a629836b7ac8dd0ef0266834eab270ed4b3
+SIZE (cfitsio-3.49.tar.gz) = 4934662