diff --git a/devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-kafka/Makefile b/devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-kafka/Makefile
index 4c47e1854d1ef..d5e8fa988f22b 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-kafka/Makefile
+++ b/devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-kafka/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	aws-sdk-kafka
-PORTVERSION=	1.67.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.68.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ WWW=		https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby/tree/version-3/gems/aws-sdk-kafka
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-aws-sdk-core>=3.188.0<4:devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-core \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-aws-sdk-core>=3.191.0<4:devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-core \
 		rubygem-aws-sigv4>=1.1<2:devel/rubygem-aws-sigv4
 
 USES=		gem
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-kafka/distinfo b/devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-kafka/distinfo
index 7b5142e3a68ad..05414c5529ea1 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-kafka/distinfo
+++ b/devel/rubygem-aws-sdk-kafka/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1701364114
-SHA256 (rubygem/aws-sdk-kafka-1.67.0.gem) = ba21302d566f339a156e9480baaf97e7477d88e7485ce764d70199ec7a44e23d
-SIZE (rubygem/aws-sdk-kafka-1.67.0.gem) = 60928
+TIMESTAMP = 1708449962
+SHA256 (rubygem/aws-sdk-kafka-1.68.0.gem) = 9a542d5d797052b2a4fe2fdf0e40ba4eb6099b0425f2978510f8a69c6f973f0e
+SIZE (rubygem/aws-sdk-kafka-1.68.0.gem) = 71680