diff --git a/textproc/libhighlight/Makefile.common b/textproc/libhighlight/Makefile.common
index 746c84914725..a7abf5daff9d 100644
--- a/textproc/libhighlight/Makefile.common
+++ b/textproc/libhighlight/Makefile.common
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile.common,v 1.26 2023/07/18 12:19:41 schmonz Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile.common,v 1.27 2023/09/06 18:06:23 schmonz Exp $
 # used by textproc/highlight/Makefile
 # used by textproc/libhighlight/Makefile
 # used by textproc/p5-highlight/Makefile
 
 DISTNAME=		highlight-${VERSION}
-VERSION=		4.7
+VERSION=		4.8
 CATEGORIES=		textproc
 MASTER_SITES=		http://www.andre-simon.de/zip/
 EXTRACT_SUFX=		.tar.bz2
diff --git a/textproc/libhighlight/PLIST b/textproc/libhighlight/PLIST
index f19bc69e462c..73c04d98d5eb 100644
--- a/textproc/libhighlight/PLIST
+++ b/textproc/libhighlight/PLIST
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.22 2023/05/24 15:53:35 schmonz Exp $
+@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.23 2023/09/06 18:06:23 schmonz Exp $
 lib/libhighlight.la
 share/bash-completion/completions/highlight
 share/doc/highlight/AUTHORS
@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ share/highlight/langDefs/xml.lang
 share/highlight/langDefs/xpp.lang
 share/highlight/langDefs/yaiff.lang
 share/highlight/langDefs/yaml.lang
+share/highlight/langDefs/yaml_ansible.lang
 share/highlight/langDefs/yang.lang
 share/highlight/langDefs/zig.lang
 share/highlight/langDefs/znn.lang
diff --git a/textproc/libhighlight/distinfo b/textproc/libhighlight/distinfo
index ce7fd65c0414..514bd5240534 100644
--- a/textproc/libhighlight/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/libhighlight/distinfo
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.29 2023/07/18 12:19:41 schmonz Exp $
+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.30 2023/09/06 18:06:23 schmonz Exp $
 
-BLAKE2s (highlight-4.7.tar.bz2) = 10fca9db612f05390080521be4ca2990416b6b498d358cf3a57daf708f977dbf
-SHA512 (highlight-4.7.tar.bz2) = b75106687fcfbc8629f36698dd690cd2935777be384583197a34dadadffd3eb6e9fc66f2bdb7599e9dcff18e70ddb84834b469f6e6c4d1efc11ea7a4fb696e04
-Size (highlight-4.7.tar.bz2) = 1489235 bytes
+BLAKE2s (highlight-4.8.tar.bz2) = e13bbbabb789062aed31205339c178713a82f3327158e0e86f3fc8ea5b06584d
+SHA512 (highlight-4.8.tar.bz2) = c04e94b2fdb1ebda37937a8bdcdb1bb5afe171a74ca58ddf40b1972bc62a07dc02d628bc962b1db654805a446f32da8d7af41a0c162476cf47a3535128ca6ace
+Size (highlight-4.8.tar.bz2) = 1492966 bytes
 SHA1 (patch-extras_swig_makefile) = 071290b9eb92124eb5605173b77575c5747a4b5e
 SHA1 (patch-makefile) = 92f6514c39f6aa437f9beaafc10a1f6275e241b3
 SHA1 (patch-src_core_platform__fs.cpp) = dfc7addeca0faf4ff4996c1efcf5114ea78aebe3
-SHA1 (patch-src_gui-qt_highlight.pro) = f24da8f3a136a9ae5066401a4d46ee802a789c8a
+SHA1 (patch-src_gui-qt_highlight.pro) = 48200cbff5c0004ecae5ed013de6eef65ab260fa
 SHA1 (patch-src_gui-qt_mainwindow.cpp) = 8589c68e032385801bc969abe805f1be3dc2630f
 SHA1 (patch-src_gui-qt_showtextfile.cpp) = 9bd974f40aa9a5bf7c8178e079d4ee1818a4d7b8
 SHA1 (patch-src_makefile) = a66c61de0ed3eff5fa9ac2da9d434fcd6c553b51
diff --git a/textproc/libhighlight/patches/patch-src_gui-qt_highlight.pro b/textproc/libhighlight/patches/patch-src_gui-qt_highlight.pro
index 0a3abbfd7473..aefb62816bb8 100644
--- a/textproc/libhighlight/patches/patch-src_gui-qt_highlight.pro
+++ b/textproc/libhighlight/patches/patch-src_gui-qt_highlight.pro
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-$NetBSD: patch-src_gui-qt_highlight.pro,v 1.5 2023/05/24 15:53:35 schmonz Exp $
+$NetBSD: patch-src_gui-qt_highlight.pro,v 1.6 2023/09/06 18:06:23 schmonz Exp $
 
 Restore non-.app macOS build settings from 3.59.
 
---- src/gui-qt/highlight.pro.orig	2023-05-19 11:27:59.000000000 +0000
+--- src/gui-qt/highlight.pro.orig	2023-08-28 20:06:54.000000000 +0000
 +++ src/gui-qt/highlight.pro
-@@ -82,8 +82,11 @@ macx-clang|macx-clang-arm64  {
+@@ -89,8 +89,11 @@ macx-clang|macx-clang-arm64  {
      INCLUDEPATH += ../../include
-     INCLUDEPATH+=/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.81.0_1/include
+     INCLUDEPATH+=/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.82.0_1/include
  
 -    QMAKE_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.0
 -    CONFIG += app_bundle