diff --git a/devel/yajl-tcl/Makefile b/devel/yajl-tcl/Makefile
index 7b6299935d63..5b7380287c30 100644
--- a/devel/yajl-tcl/Makefile
+++ b/devel/yajl-tcl/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	yajl-tcl
-PORTVERSION=	1.7.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.8.1
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 
 MAINTAINER=	tcltk@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Tcl bindings for Yet Another JSON Library
 WWW=		https://github.com/flightaware/yajl-tcl
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libyajl.so:devel/yajl
 TEST_DEPENDS=	dtplite:devel/tcllib
 
 USES=		autoreconf pkgconfig tcl:tea
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	flightaware
 
 TEST_TARGET=	test
 
 PLIST_FILES=	lib/yajltcl${PORTVERSION}/libyajltcl.so.1 \
 		lib/yajltcl${PORTVERSION}/pkgIndex.tcl \
 		lib/yajltcl${PORTVERSION}/yajl.tcl
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/yajl-tcl/distinfo b/devel/yajl-tcl/distinfo
index 7187f58e109f..7bff413c87dc 100644
--- a/devel/yajl-tcl/distinfo
+++ b/devel/yajl-tcl/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1561470652
-SHA256 (flightaware-yajl-tcl-v1.7.0_GH0.tar.gz) = df5fe5977b244eda572a99d294087cbd1795457a2ee1ae3dab32ddc58d44dbf9
-SIZE (flightaware-yajl-tcl-v1.7.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 493118
+TIMESTAMP = 1709628094
+SHA256 (flightaware-yajl-tcl-v1.8.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 42115ea660c9117398f74929f43cc663eb008887fbff014ec2fe8a22a3b1a90b
+SIZE (flightaware-yajl-tcl-v1.8.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 493871
diff --git a/devel/yajl-tcl/files/patch-tclconfig_tcl.m4 b/devel/yajl-tcl/files/patch-tclconfig_tcl.m4
deleted file mode 100644
index ba657feb74a5..000000000000
--- a/devel/yajl-tcl/files/patch-tclconfig_tcl.m4
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
---- tclconfig/tcl.m4.orig	2018-05-07 16:24:46 UTC
-+++ tclconfig/tcl.m4
-@@ -1602,9 +1602,8 @@ dnl AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar)
- 	    UNSHARED_LIB_SUFFIX='${TCL_TRIM_DOTS}.a'
- 	    TCL_LIB_VERSIONS_OK=nodots
- 	    ;;
--	NetBSD-*|FreeBSD-[[3-4]].*)
--	    # FreeBSD 3.* and greater have ELF.
--	    # NetBSD 2.* has ELF and can use 'cc -shared' to build shared libs
-+	NetBSD-*)
-+	    # NetBSD has ELF and can use 'cc -shared' to build shared libs
- 	    SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC"
- 	    SHLIB_LD='${CC} -shared ${SHLIB_CFLAGS}'
- 	    SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"
-@@ -1618,20 +1617,12 @@ dnl AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar)
- 		CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -pthread"
- 	    	LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -pthread"
- 	    ])
--	    case $system in
--	    FreeBSD-3.*)
--	    	# FreeBSD-3 doesn't handle version numbers with dots.
--	    	UNSHARED_LIB_SUFFIX='${TCL_TRIM_DOTS}.a'
--	    	SHARED_LIB_SUFFIX='${TCL_TRIM_DOTS}.so'
--	    	TCL_LIB_VERSIONS_OK=nodots
--		;;
--	    esac
- 	    ;;
- 	FreeBSD-*)
- 	    # This configuration from FreeBSD Ports.
- 	    SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC"
- 	    SHLIB_LD="${CC} -shared"
--	    TCL_SHLIB_LD_EXTRAS="-soname \$[@]"
-+	    SHLIB_LD_LIBS="${SHLIB_LD_LIBS} -Wl,-soname,\$[@]"
- 	    SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"
- 	    LDFLAGS=""
- 	    AS_IF([test $doRpath = yes], [