diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-character_set/Makefile b/textproc/rubygem-character_set/Makefile
index b04170b498b7..14208d55525a 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-character_set/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-character_set/Makefile
@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 PORTNAME=	character_set
-PORTVERSION=	1.4.1
+PORTVERSION=	1.8.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
 MAINTAINER=	mfechner@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Build, read, write and compare sets of Unicode codepoints
 WWW=		https://github.com/jaynetics/character_set
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-sorted_set>=1.0<2:devel/rubygem-sorted_set
-
 USES=		gem
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-character_set/distinfo b/textproc/rubygem-character_set/distinfo
index d00ad8a65795..9c023a78bcee 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-character_set/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-character_set/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1636813532
-SHA256 (rubygem/character_set-1.4.1.gem) = f71b1ac35b21c4c6f9f26b8a67c7eec8e10bdf0da17488ac7f8fae756d9f8062
-SIZE (rubygem/character_set-1.4.1.gem) = 43008
+TIMESTAMP = 1704966564
+SHA256 (rubygem/character_set-1.8.0.gem) = 2b7317462adaedff0bd1576ae86d71bc5efe133a5d0b7c257021b00fe3153f51
+SIZE (rubygem/character_set-1.8.0.gem) = 46080