diff --git a/devel/hs-attempt/Makefile b/devel/hs-attempt/Makefile
index 25272400d78b..837da03a388b 100644
--- a/devel/hs-attempt/Makefile
+++ b/devel/hs-attempt/Makefile
@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	attempt
-PORTVERSION=	0.3.1.1
+PORTVERSION=	0.4.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel haskell
 
 MAINTAINER=	haskell@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT=	Data type for handling exceptions as failures
+COMMENT=	Concrete data type for handling exceptions as failures
 
 LICENSE=	BSD
 
-USE_CABAL=	failure>=0.1.0
+USE_CABAL=	failure>=0.2.0
 
 .include "${.CURDIR}/../../lang/ghc/bsd.cabal.mk"
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/hs-attempt/distinfo b/devel/hs-attempt/distinfo
index 268a547462e6..ec3b7e0a1acd 100644
--- a/devel/hs-attempt/distinfo
+++ b/devel/hs-attempt/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (cabal/attempt-0.3.1.1.tar.gz) = 65577df83673142aa9858a0b792721939e96dcf3dab0989081d6f8776045d679
-SIZE (cabal/attempt-0.3.1.1.tar.gz) = 3960
+SHA256 (cabal/attempt-0.4.0.tar.gz) = 5e7a9ce02687ee5d1057258443ba97e80096eb6bfbc78f0306ca05ff42cbfa58
+SIZE (cabal/attempt-0.4.0.tar.gz) = 3871