diff --git a/textproc/fop/Makefile b/textproc/fop/Makefile
index 6e21049885e6..f20636ece1f1 100644
--- a/textproc/fop/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/fop/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	fop
-DISTVERSION=	2.6
+DISTVERSION=	2.8
 CATEGORIES=	textproc java
 MASTER_SITES=	APACHE/xmlgraphics/fop/source/:fop \
 		SF/offo/offo-hyphenation/2.2:hyph \
diff --git a/textproc/fop/distinfo b/textproc/fop/distinfo
index da742ea304f3..612a8672ebf9 100644
--- a/textproc/fop/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/fop/distinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1627051195
-SHA256 (fop-2.6-src.tar.gz) = 084fa6c9d0a3cc7b76502f69579ba52495a7390cb86341c6aa8b54c006bcb890
-SIZE (fop-2.6-src.tar.gz) = 27478217
+TIMESTAMP = 1675879419
+SHA256 (fop-2.8-src.tar.gz) = 6fb02fd7bc2ee80aff9e928e8b062ace5bc115222e5d3a6a4da70cd6cc6d06f7
+SIZE (fop-2.8-src.tar.gz) = 22855369
 SHA256 (offo-hyphenation.zip) = df0b863a2ef269ac7defd497f74da54480cd2c03ad665304e7c05334ab3f289f
 SIZE (offo-hyphenation.zip) = 883080
diff --git a/textproc/fop/files/patch-build.xml b/textproc/fop/files/patch-build.xml
index f5714e0a2e2b..ae72a741e206 100644
--- a/textproc/fop/files/patch-build.xml
+++ b/textproc/fop/files/patch-build.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 This patch reverts FOP-2895 to avoid dependency on maven.
 
---- fop/build.xml.orig	2021-01-12 12:15:02 UTC
+--- fop/build.xml	2022-11-02
 +++ fop/build.xml
 @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ list of possible build targets.
    <property name="lib.dir" value="${basedir}/lib"/>
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ This patch reverts FOP-2895 to avoid dependency on maven.
    <fileset dir="${build.classes.dir}" id="transcoder-classes-files">
      <patternset refid="transcoder-classes"/>
    </fileset>
-@@ -623,28 +676,60 @@ list of possible build targets.
+@@ -623,30 +676,60 @@ list of possible build targets.
      <os family="unix" />
    </condition>
    
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ This patch reverts FOP-2895 to avoid dependency on maven.
 -      <arg value="clean"/>
 -      <arg value="install"/>
 -      <arg value="-DskipTests"/>
+-      <arg value="-U"/>
 -    </exec>	
 -    <copy file="${basedir}/../fop-transcoder/target/fop-transcoder-${version}.jar" tofile="${build.dir}/fop-transcoder.jar"/>
 -    <copy file="${basedir}/../fop-transcoder-allinone/target/fop-transcoder-allinone-${version}.jar" tofile="${build.dir}/fop-transcoder-allinone.jar"/>
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ This patch reverts FOP-2895 to avoid dependency on maven.
 -      <arg value="clean"/>
 -      <arg value="install"/>
 -      <arg value="-DskipTests"/>
+-      <arg value="-U"/>
 -    </exec>
 -    <copy file="${basedir}/../fop-transcoder/target/fop-transcoder-${version}.jar" tofile="${build.dir}/fop-transcoder.jar"/>
 -    <copy file="${basedir}/../fop-transcoder-allinone/target/fop-transcoder-allinone-${version}.jar" tofile="${build.dir}/fop-transcoder-allinone.jar"/>
diff --git a/textproc/fop/pkg-descr b/textproc/fop/pkg-descr
index 85a523f001a3..4e0a2c7cdc8f 100644
--- a/textproc/fop/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/fop/pkg-descr
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ tree conforming to the XSL candidate release (21. November 2000) and
 then turns it into a PDF document or allows you to preview it
 directly on screen.
 
-FOP is part of Apache's XML project. The homepage of FOP is
+FOP is part of Apache's XML project.
diff --git a/textproc/fop/pkg-plist b/textproc/fop/pkg-plist
index 1ce9cd68f076..5fe098e73aa2 100644
--- a/textproc/fop/pkg-plist
+++ b/textproc/fop/pkg-plist
@@ -81,14 +81,12 @@ bin/fop
 %%DATADIR%%/hyph/uk.xml
 %%DATADIR%%/hyph/zh_Latn.xml
 %%DATADIR%%/lib/README.txt
-%%DATADIR%%/lib/batik-all-1.14.jar
-%%DATADIR%%/lib/commons-io-1.3.1.jar
+%%DATADIR%%/lib/batik-all-1.16.jar
+%%DATADIR%%/lib/commons-io-2.11.0.jar
 %%DATADIR%%/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
-%%DATADIR%%/lib/fontbox-2.0.19.jar
+%%DATADIR%%/lib/fontbox-2.0.24.jar
 %%DATADIR%%/lib/serializer-2.7.2.jar
 %%DATADIR%%/lib/servlet-2.2.jar
-%%DATADIR%%/lib/xalan-2.7.2.jar
-%%DATADIR%%/lib/xercesImpl-2.12.0.jar
 %%DATADIR%%/lib/xml-apis-1.4.01.jar
 %%DATADIR%%/lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar
-%%DATADIR%%/lib/xmlgraphics-commons-2.6.jar
+%%DATADIR%%/lib/xmlgraphics-commons-2.8.jar