diff --git a/security/hitch/Makefile b/security/hitch/Makefile
index f534e749b27b..830f37b4ef62 100644
--- a/security/hitch/Makefile
+++ b/security/hitch/Makefile
@@ -1,38 +1,38 @@
 PORTNAME=		hitch
-PORTVERSION=		1.7.3
+PORTVERSION=		1.8.0
 CATEGORIES=		security
 MASTER_SITES=		http://hitch-tls.org/source/ \
 			ZI
 
 MAINTAINER=		zi@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=		TLS proxy to forward connections to an unencrypted backend
 WWW=			https://github.com/varnish/hitch/
 
 LICENSE=		BSD2CLAUSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=		rst2man:textproc/py-docutils
 LIB_DEPENDS=		libev.so:devel/libev
 
 USERS=			hitch
 GROUPS=			hitch
 
 USES=			pkgconfig ssl
 GNU_CONFIGURE=		yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=		--localstatedir=/var/run
 CONFIGURE_ENV=		CRYPTO_CFLAGS="-I${OPENSSLINC}" CRYPTO_LIBS="-L${OPENSSLLIB}" \
 			SSL_CFLAGS="-I${OPENSSLINC}" SSL_LIBS="-L${OPENSSLLIB}"
 USE_RC_SUBR=		${PORTNAME}
 CPPFLAGS+=		-I${LOCALBASE}/include
 LDFLAGS+=		-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lcrypto -lssl
 CACHE_DIR?=		/var/cache/hitch
 PLIST_SUB=		CACHE_DIR=${CACHE_DIR}
 SUB_LIST+=		CACHE_DIR="${CACHE_DIR}"
 SUB_FILES=		${PORTNAME}.conf.sample
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		DOCS
 
 post-install:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc ${STAGEDIR}${CACHE_DIR}
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}.conf.sample ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/security/hitch/distinfo b/security/hitch/distinfo
index 73f5d3919a5b..8891e4afd0e6 100644
--- a/security/hitch/distinfo
+++ b/security/hitch/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1669650966
-SHA256 (hitch-1.7.3.tar.gz) = 1a1bf4955d775b718dc31c89a1a05176530b0ca856f95ee42a2bc7a23f289787
-SIZE (hitch-1.7.3.tar.gz) = 355577
+TIMESTAMP = 1696949297
+SHA256 (hitch-1.8.0.tar.gz) = dfc99484bc7ffea27a3169e84d6c217988eda47b208ab2e5524dc2a5dd158f4e
+SIZE (hitch-1.8.0.tar.gz) = 358605
diff --git a/security/hitch/files/patch-src_configuration.c b/security/hitch/files/patch-src_configuration.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..34df06234450
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/hitch/files/patch-src_configuration.c
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- src/configuration.c.orig	2023-10-10 16:16:06 UTC
++++ src/configuration.c
+@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
+ 
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
++#ifndef __FreeBSD__
+ #include <sys/sysinfo.h>
++#endif
+ 
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <string.h>