diff --git a/lang/expect/Makefile b/lang/expect/Makefile
index e704e4c960f2..00ac4a92ac62 100644
--- a/lang/expect/Makefile
+++ b/lang/expect/Makefile
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	expect
-PORTVERSION=	5.38.0
-PORTREVISION=	3
+PORTVERSION=	5.42.1
 CATEGORIES=	lang tcl84 tk84
 MASTER_SITES=	http://expect.nist.gov/src/
 
@@ -19,8 +18,8 @@ LIB_DEPENDS?=	tk84.1:${PORTSDIR}/x11-toolkits/tk84
 LIB_DEPENDS?=	tcl84.1:${PORTSDIR}/lang/tcl84
 .endif
 
-EXPECT_VER=	5.38
-LIBEXPECT_VER=	538
+EXPECT_VER=	5.42
+LIBEXPECT_VER=	542
 
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/expect-${EXPECT_VER}
 INSTALLS_SHLIB=	yes
diff --git a/lang/expect/distinfo b/lang/expect/distinfo
index 3c378bf27982..4e00abc639b8 100644
--- a/lang/expect/distinfo
+++ b/lang/expect/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-MD5 (expect-5.38.0.tar.gz) = 441c2466efecb644ac08d7b60916f665
-SIZE (expect-5.38.0.tar.gz) = 517652
+MD5 (expect-5.42.1.tar.gz) = fea346fac6aaf74b0851f2441f478571
+SIZE (expect-5.42.1.tar.gz) = 524882