diff --git a/textproc/py-gensim/Makefile b/textproc/py-gensim/Makefile
index dcaf7223709c..535b4e8ff45b 100644
--- a/textproc/py-gensim/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-gensim/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	gensim
-DISTVERSION=	3.7.3
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	3.8.1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -17,9 +16,9 @@ BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scipy>=0.18.1:science/py-scipy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}six>=1.5.0:devel/py-six@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}smart_open>=1.7.1:net/py-smart_open@${PY_FLAVOR}
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}smart_open>=1.8.1:net/py-smart_open@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		compiler:c++11-lang python
+USES=		compiler:c++11-lang python:3.5+
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-gensim/distinfo b/textproc/py-gensim/distinfo
index 285cfaeffdcd..4bc37b4c189b 100644
--- a/textproc/py-gensim/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-gensim/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1557600261
-SHA256 (gensim-3.7.3.tar.gz) = 621fe72ee1bb0e16008c34f9f5ca6168bbfc82fc85907f7254974776e482e156
-SIZE (gensim-3.7.3.tar.gz) = 23369699
+TIMESTAMP = 1573897388
+SHA256 (gensim-3.8.1.tar.gz) = 33277fc0a8d7b0c7ce70fcc74bb82ad39f944c009b334856c6e86bf552b1dfdc
+SIZE (gensim-3.8.1.tar.gz) = 23377597