diff --git a/devel/harfbuzz/Makefile b/devel/harfbuzz/Makefile
index 28ab671a596..68f74de0cb9 100644
--- a/devel/harfbuzz/Makefile
+++ b/devel/harfbuzz/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.131 2021/07/09 10:00:50 ajacoutot Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.132 2021/08/21 08:15:22 ajacoutot Exp $
 
 BROKEN-hppa=		no atomic primitives
 
@@ -7,15 +7,15 @@ COMMENT-icu=		ICU support for libharfbuzz
 
 GH_ACCOUNT=		harfbuzz
 GH_PROJECT=		harfbuzz
-GH_TAGNAME=		2.8.2
+GH_TAGNAME=		2.9.0
 
 PKGNAME-main=		harfbuzz-${GH_TAGNAME}
 PKGNAME-icu=		harfbuzz-icu-${GH_TAGNAME}
 
-SHARED_LIBS += harfbuzz                 15.6 # 0.20802.0
-SHARED_LIBS += harfbuzz-subset           0.2 # 0.20802.0
-SHARED_LIBS += harfbuzz-icu              1.2 # 0.20802.0
-SHARED_LIBS += harfbuzz-gobject          0.3 # 0.20802.0
+SHARED_LIBS += harfbuzz                  15.7 # 0.20900.0
+SHARED_LIBS += harfbuzz-subset           0.2 # 0.20900.0
+SHARED_LIBS += harfbuzz-icu              1.2 # 0.20900.0
+SHARED_LIBS += harfbuzz-gobject          0.3 # 0.20900.0
 
 CATEGORIES=		devel graphics textproc
 
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ MAINTAINER=		Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
 # MIT
 PERMIT_PACKAGE=		Yes
 
-WANTLIB-main += ${COMPILER_LIBCXX}
 WANTLIB-main += c cairo freetype glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 graphite2 m
 
 WANTLIB-icu += harfbuzz icuuc
diff --git a/devel/harfbuzz/distinfo b/devel/harfbuzz/distinfo
index 6902a353564..0f6e95366bd 100644
--- a/devel/harfbuzz/distinfo
+++ b/devel/harfbuzz/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (harfbuzz-2.8.2.tar.gz) = QWT2gQPntSdXpzIifPoqFs+pmE2lE4Q7tOt2aa3G8iA=
-SIZE (harfbuzz-2.8.2.tar.gz) = 18506485
+SHA256 (harfbuzz-2.9.0.tar.gz) = v11brWnuRP8d0IgAxYy0M+mzv02tXXxvHexdHPAknQQ=
+SIZE (harfbuzz-2.9.0.tar.gz) = 18794661
diff --git a/devel/harfbuzz/patches/patch-src_check-symbols_py b/devel/harfbuzz/patches/patch-src_check-symbols_py
index 21197b0e4be..2b7a30aaf22 100644
--- a/devel/harfbuzz/patches/patch-src_check-symbols_py
+++ b/devel/harfbuzz/patches/patch-src_check-symbols_py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-$OpenBSD: patch-src_check-symbols_py,v 1.1 2020/06/06 09:54:45 ajacoutot Exp $
+$OpenBSD: patch-src_check-symbols_py,v 1.2 2021/08/21 08:15:22 ajacoutot Exp $
 
 Index: src/check-symbols.py
 --- src/check-symbols.py.orig
 +++ src/check-symbols.py
-@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tested = False
+@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ tested = False
  stat = 0
  
  for soname in ['harfbuzz', 'harfbuzz-subset', 'harfbuzz-icu', 'harfbuzz-gobject']: