diff --git a/editors/focuswriter/Makefile b/editors/focuswriter/Makefile
index 470b69cbc859..28c757edee49 100644
--- a/editors/focuswriter/Makefile
+++ b/editors/focuswriter/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	focuswriter
-DISTVERSION=	1.8.7
+DISTVERSION=	1.8.8
 CATEGORIES=	editors
 MASTER_SITES=	https://gottcode.org/${PORTNAME}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple, distraction-free writing environment
 WWW=		https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3+ LGPL3+
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 LICENSE_FILE_GPLv3+ =	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 LICENSE_FILE_LGPL3+ =	${WRKSRC}/resources/images/icons/oxygen/COPYING
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libhunspell-1.7.so:textproc/hunspell
 
 USES=		cmake compiler:c++17-lang desktop-file-utils gl iconv pkgconfig \
 		qt:6 tar:bz2
 USE_GL=		opengl
 USE_QT=		base multimedia tools:build
 
 PORTDATA=	*
 PORTDOCS=	CREDITS ChangeLog README
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS LTO
 
 LTO_CMAKE_BOOL=	ENABLE_LINK_TIME_OPTIMIZATION
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} "${PORTDOCS}" ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/editors/focuswriter/distinfo b/editors/focuswriter/distinfo
index a3e8e2d16dca..4f471d3b17c2 100644
--- a/editors/focuswriter/distinfo
+++ b/editors/focuswriter/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1714678766
-SHA256 (focuswriter-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 47da3f8c4302e58ac0d0cc293bdd8fbe91a2e84af0f91ed995ca5fb1731fbef1
-SIZE (focuswriter-1.8.7.tar.bz2) = 10639929
+TIMESTAMP = 1716319854
+SHA256 (focuswriter-1.8.8.tar.bz2) = cd34c97978bee62bc730c8369b183153240a7ea47fb13507c60be15b105259ff
+SIZE (focuswriter-1.8.8.tar.bz2) = 10640138