diff --git a/ports/hiredis/portfile.cmake b/ports/hiredis/portfile.cmake
index 6e7e0937d3adac..0eb8f9b566f460 100644
--- a/ports/hiredis/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/hiredis/portfile.cmake
@@ -33,11 +33,24 @@ vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
 
 vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig()
 
-file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include")
 vcpkg_cmake_config_fixup()
 if("ssl" IN_LIST FEATURES)
     vcpkg_cmake_config_fixup(PACKAGE_NAME hiredis_ssl CONFIG_PATH share/hiredis_ssl)
 endif()
 
+vcpkg_replace_string("${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/include/hiredis/hiredis.h"
+[[typedef long long ssize_t;
+#define _SSIZE_T_ /* for compatibility with libuv */]]
+[[typedef intptr_t ssize_t;]]
+)
+vcpkg_replace_string("${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/include/hiredis/sds.h"
+[[typedef long long ssize_t;
+#define SSIZE_MAX (LLONG_MAX >> 1)]]
+[[typedef intptr_t ssize_t;
+#define SSIZE_MAX INTPTR_MAX]]
+)
+
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include")
+
 # Handle copyright
 file(INSTALL "${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING" DESTINATION "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}" RENAME copyright)
diff --git a/ports/hiredis/vcpkg.json b/ports/hiredis/vcpkg.json
index 48379f488c24b6..b8cbfc8e4f97b6 100644
--- a/ports/hiredis/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/hiredis/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 {
   "name": "hiredis",
   "version": "1.0.2",
-  "port-version": 3,
+  "port-version": 4,
   "description": "Hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/redis/hiredis",
+  "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
   "dependencies": [
     {
       "name": "vcpkg-cmake",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 8382ef36d3e2a9..a436acc93eefbb 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -2814,7 +2814,7 @@
     },
     "hiredis": {
       "baseline": "1.0.2",
-      "port-version": 3
+      "port-version": 4
     },
     "hps": {
       "baseline": "2022-01-18",
diff --git a/versions/h-/hiredis.json b/versions/h-/hiredis.json
index 36c7df6bef130f..2c59b0b7f0774c 100644
--- a/versions/h-/hiredis.json
+++ b/versions/h-/hiredis.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "448374fa990c04aa7964508d32817a6d7868600b",
+      "version": "1.0.2",
+      "port-version": 4
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "4eafe5d23a2d906153cc8821c14092f2a9d3ef8a",
       "version": "1.0.2",