diff --git a/textproc/libxml++26/Makefile b/textproc/libxml++26/Makefile
index 171839a0ceab..c675bcc38674 100644
--- a/textproc/libxml++26/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/libxml++26/Makefile
@@ -3,14 +3,17 @@
 #   $MCom: ports/textproc/libxml++26/Makefile,v 1.43 2011/04/18 19:58:29 kwm Exp $
 
 PORTNAME=	libxml++
-PORTVERSION=	2.34.2
-PORTREVISION?=	4
+PORTVERSION=	2.40.1
+PORTREVISION?=	0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	GNOME
 
 MAINTAINER=	bland@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	XML API for C++
 
+LICENSE=	LGPL21
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
+
 USES+=		tar:xz
 
 PLIST_SUB=	VERSION="2.6" API_VERSION="2.6"
diff --git a/textproc/libxml++26/distinfo b/textproc/libxml++26/distinfo
index 59eef6d2ba55..fca4d7a8b9f6 100644
--- a/textproc/libxml++26/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/libxml++26/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-SHA256 (libxml++-2.34.2.tar.xz) = 77daba20ab76631071d4ed4cc18fa2e981160ca05ae661e8d146f2b0728f9baa
-SIZE (libxml++-2.34.2.tar.xz) = 1070956
+TIMESTAMP = 1490627284
+SHA256 (libxml++-2.40.1.tar.xz) = 4ad4abdd3258874f61c2e2a41d08e9930677976d303653cd1670d3e9f35463e9
+SIZE (libxml++-2.40.1.tar.xz) = 955220
diff --git a/textproc/libxml++26/files/patch-c++11 b/textproc/libxml++26/files/patch-c++11
deleted file mode 100644
index 6374f9db386f..000000000000
--- a/textproc/libxml++26/files/patch-c++11
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-From 7dbfb0aed508451e8237c34472815e44925a545c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Mikhail Titov <mlt@gmx.us>
-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:51:20 +0200
-Subject: Fix the build with C++11 compilers, such as MS Visual C++ 2013.
-
-Implicit conversions from streams to bool are no longer allowed.
----
- libxml++/io/istreamparserinputbuffer.cc | 2 +-
- libxml++/io/ostreamoutputbuffer.cc      | 4 ++--
- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/libxml++/io/istreamparserinputbuffer.cc b/libxml++/io/istreamparserinputbuffer.cc
-index b1d6e5b..7a7f283 100644
---- libxml++/io/istreamparserinputbuffer.cc
-+++ libxml++/io/istreamparserinputbuffer.cc
-@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ namespace xmlpp
- 
-   bool IStreamParserInputBuffer::do_close()
-   {
--    return input_;
-+    return input_.good();
-   }
- }
-diff --git a/libxml++/io/ostreamoutputbuffer.cc b/libxml++/io/ostreamoutputbuffer.cc
-index 0a3e6db..b23a8b6 100644
---- libxml++/io/ostreamoutputbuffer.cc
-+++ libxml++/io/ostreamoutputbuffer.cc
-@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ namespace xmlpp
-     // here we rely on the ostream implicit conversion to boolean, to know if the stream can be used and/or if the write succeded.
-     if(output_)
-       output_.write(buffer, len);
--    return output_;
-+    return output_.good();
-   }
- 
-   bool OStreamOutputBuffer::do_close()
-   {
-     if(output_)
-         output_.flush();
--    return output_;
-+    return output_.good();
-   }
- }
--- 
-cgit v0.12
-
diff --git a/textproc/libxml++26/pkg-plist b/textproc/libxml++26/pkg-plist
index 4199bf447250..fd8bb1ffd111 100644
--- a/textproc/libxml++26/pkg-plist
+++ b/textproc/libxml++26/pkg-plist
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/include/libxml++config.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/attribute.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/attributedeclaration.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/attributenode.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/document.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/dtd.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/exceptions/exception.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/exceptions/internal_error.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/exceptions/parse_error.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/exceptions/validity_error.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/exceptions/wrapped_exception.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/io/istreamparserinputbuffer.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/io/ostreamoutputbuffer.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/io/outputbuffer.h
@@ -16,19 +19,28 @@ include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/cdatanode.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/commentnode.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/contentnode.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/element.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/entitydeclaration.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/entityreference.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/node.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/processinginstructionnode.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/textnode.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/xincludeend.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/nodes/xincludestart.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/noncopyable.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/parsers/domparser.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/parsers/parser.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/parsers/saxparser.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/parsers/textreader.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/relaxngschema.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/schema.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/schemabase.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/validators/dtdvalidator.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/validators/relaxngvalidator.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/validators/schemavalidator.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/validators/schemavalidatorbase.h
 include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/validators/validator.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/validators/xsdvalidator.h
+include/libxml++-%%API_VERSION%%/libxml++/xsdschema.h
 lib/libxml++-%%VERSION%%.a
 lib/libxml++-%%VERSION%%.so
 lib/libxml++-%%VERSION%%.so.2