diff --git textproc/libxml2/Makefile textproc/libxml2/Makefile
index 1fab3d2dd412..8a60ae724b88 100644
--- textproc/libxml2/Makefile
+++ textproc/libxml2/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	libxml2
-PORTVERSION=	2.9.8
+PORTVERSION=	2.9.9
 PORTREVISION?=	0
 CATEGORIES?=	textproc gnome
 MASTER_SITES=	http://xmlsoft.org/sources/
diff --git textproc/libxml2/distinfo textproc/libxml2/distinfo
index bea256ac3b61..673ef205e512 100644
--- textproc/libxml2/distinfo
+++ textproc/libxml2/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1544024677
-SHA256 (gnome2/libxml2-2.9.8.tar.gz) = 0b74e51595654f958148759cfef0993114ddccccbb6f31aee018f3558e8e2732
-SIZE (gnome2/libxml2-2.9.8.tar.gz) = 5469097
+TIMESTAMP = 1559577911
+SHA256 (gnome2/libxml2-2.9.9.tar.gz) = 94fb70890143e3c6549f265cee93ec064c80a84c42ad0f23e85ee1fd6540a871
+SIZE (gnome2/libxml2-2.9.9.tar.gz) = 5476717