diff --git a/misc/lightgbm/Makefile b/misc/lightgbm/Makefile
index 68047c2fe5ce..abddad107c15 100644
--- a/misc/lightgbm/Makefile
+++ b/misc/lightgbm/Makefile
@@ -1,33 +1,34 @@
 PORTNAME=	lightgbm
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	3.3.5
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	4.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Gradient boosting framework that uses tree based learning algorithms
 WWW=		https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 TEST_DEPENDS=	googletest>0:devel/googletest
 
 USES=		cmake:testing compiler:c++11-lang eigen:3
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	microsoft
 GH_PROJECT=	LightGBM
 GH_TUPLE=	boostorg:compute:36350b7:boostorg_compute/external_libs/compute \
 		fmtlib:fmt:b6f4cea:fmt/external_libs/fmt \
 		lemire:fast_double_parser:ace6064:fast_double_parser/external_libs/fast_double_parser
 
 CMAKE_TESTING_ON=	BUILD_CPP_TEST
 CMAKE_TESTING_TARGET=
 
 CXXFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include/eigen3
 
 post-test:
-	${WRKSRC}/testlightgbm
+	@${WRKSRC}/testlightgbm
+
+# tests fail to compile, see https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/issues/5976
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/lightgbm/distinfo b/misc/lightgbm/distinfo
index 8407cb4dc97b..452ccf572148 100644
--- a/misc/lightgbm/distinfo
+++ b/misc/lightgbm/distinfo
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1674617883
-SHA256 (microsoft-LightGBM-v3.3.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 16fb9e299ced37be5ac69dd510e7323337e623019c9c578628c43b285f764be7
-SIZE (microsoft-LightGBM-v3.3.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 6875287
+TIMESTAMP = 1689350132
+SHA256 (microsoft-LightGBM-v4.0.0_GH0.tar.gz) = affb82a5a9d88949ffea634c0c33485ba966d42b1f5f838caa7c068447c99c1e
+SIZE (microsoft-LightGBM-v4.0.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 7034175
 SHA256 (boostorg-compute-36350b7_GH0.tar.gz) = b82330296614fe9222bcdee60c5f71362d6fc16f17b0fb6fb5901b6531d1df90
 SIZE (boostorg-compute-36350b7_GH0.tar.gz) = 377110
 SHA256 (fmtlib-fmt-b6f4cea_GH0.tar.gz) = 121577275e29f0302dcda9c0fa4e6d33cad5f238777d8c2a7623a8cd88be8aa2
 SIZE (fmtlib-fmt-b6f4cea_GH0.tar.gz) = 826134
 SHA256 (lemire-fast_double_parser-ace6064_GH0.tar.gz) = a53e6ebeb1d37d700cfebf98b2afb98d2c92df742c6ae45c27354d950cd02988
 SIZE (lemire-fast_double_parser-ace6064_GH0.tar.gz) = 635218
diff --git a/misc/lightgbm/pkg-plist b/misc/lightgbm/pkg-plist
index 61da587e1ce4..55d8ab7b4680 100644
--- a/misc/lightgbm/pkg-plist
+++ b/misc/lightgbm/pkg-plist
@@ -1,36 +1,47 @@
 bin/lightgbm
 include/LightGBM/application.h
 include/LightGBM/bin.h
 include/LightGBM/boosting.h
 include/LightGBM/c_api.h
 include/LightGBM/config.h
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_algorithms.hpp
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_column_data.hpp
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_metadata.hpp
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_metric.hpp
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_objective_function.hpp
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_random.hpp
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_row_data.hpp
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_split_info.hpp
+include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_tree.hpp
 include/LightGBM/cuda/cuda_utils.h
 include/LightGBM/cuda/vector_cudahost.h
 include/LightGBM/dataset.h
 include/LightGBM/dataset_loader.h
 include/LightGBM/export.h
 include/LightGBM/feature_group.h
 include/LightGBM/meta.h
 include/LightGBM/metric.h
 include/LightGBM/network.h
 include/LightGBM/objective_function.h
 include/LightGBM/prediction_early_stop.h
+include/LightGBM/sample_strategy.h
 include/LightGBM/train_share_states.h
 include/LightGBM/tree.h
 include/LightGBM/tree_learner.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/array_args.h
+include/LightGBM/utils/binary_writer.h
+include/LightGBM/utils/byte_buffer.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/chunked_array.hpp
 include/LightGBM/utils/common.h
-include/LightGBM/utils/common_legacy_solaris.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/file_io.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/json11.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/log.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/openmp_wrapper.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/pipeline_reader.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/random.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/text_reader.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/threading.h
 include/LightGBM/utils/yamc/alternate_shared_mutex.hpp
 include/LightGBM/utils/yamc/yamc_rwlock_sched.hpp
 include/LightGBM/utils/yamc/yamc_shared_lock.hpp
 lib/lib_lightgbm.so