diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-elasticsearch-api/Makefile b/textproc/rubygem-elasticsearch-api/Makefile
index ade13cc86c303..c6975f165b320 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-elasticsearch-api/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-elasticsearch-api/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	elasticsearch-api
-PORTVERSION=	7.17.7
+PORTVERSION=	8.8.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ COMMENT=	Ruby API for Elasticsearch
 WWW=		https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby/tree/master/elasticsearch-api
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
-LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-multi_json>=0:devel/rubygem-multi_json
 
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-elasticsearch-api/distinfo b/textproc/rubygem-elasticsearch-api/distinfo
index d74d26870601d..3098b3b53a2b7 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-elasticsearch-api/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-elasticsearch-api/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1684104702
-SHA256 (rubygem/elasticsearch-api-7.17.7.gem) = fc8f4f4f4c459cc23e3d193ee7056fac38911991f58c5b5b1eae17f1189523f8
-SIZE (rubygem/elasticsearch-api-7.17.7.gem) = 94208
+TIMESTAMP = 1685162402
+SHA256 (rubygem/elasticsearch-api-8.8.0.gem) = 796c0601ab198c8a5f89d37c425d0b5ba47814606d51a02f2bb0f0f20874f842
+SIZE (rubygem/elasticsearch-api-8.8.0.gem) = 163840