diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/Makefile b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/Makefile
index 6d5bd3c60482..4da9c91f99a8 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	github-linguist
-PORTVERSION=	5.3.3
+PORTVERSION=	6.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-charlock_holmes>=0.7.5:textproc/rubygem-charlock_holmes \
-		rubygem-escape_utils>=1.1.0:textproc/rubygem-escape_utils \
+		rubygem-escape_utils>=1.2.0:textproc/rubygem-escape_utils \
 		rubygem-mime-types>=1.19:misc/rubygem-mime-types \
 		rubygem-rugged>=0.25.1:devel/rubygem-rugged
 
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/distinfo b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/distinfo
index 9c7921cfd384..896a6db21ca8 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1516795422
-SHA256 (rubygem/github-linguist-5.3.3.gem) = 33b7145699948800f9866220d0f8bd0ff416622e680d539318fbfa8b17d4ea4d
-SIZE (rubygem/github-linguist-5.3.3.gem) = 2425344
+TIMESTAMP = 1517130584
+SHA256 (rubygem/github-linguist-6.0.0.gem) = baf8acedf3dac4e1d9bd0416c7e1c5948fda1db55cec348faa4340f9b19eae39
+SIZE (rubygem/github-linguist-6.0.0.gem) = 2195968
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/files/patch-gemspec b/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/files/patch-gemspec
deleted file mode 100644
index 365cedb9e0b6..000000000000
--- a/textproc/rubygem-github-linguist/files/patch-gemspec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- github-linguist.gemspec.orig	2016-03-28 14:07:51.510285000 +0000
-+++ github-linguist.gemspec	2016-03-28 14:19:53.732645000 +0000
-@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
- 
-     if Gem::Version.new(Gem::VERSION) >= Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') then
-       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<charlock_holmes>.freeze, ["~> 0.7.5"])
--      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<escape_utils>.freeze, ["~> 1.1.0"])
-+      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<escape_utils>.freeze, ["~> 1.1"])
-       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<mime-types>.freeze, [">= 1.19"])
-       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<rugged>.freeze, [">= 0.23.0b"])
-       s.add_development_dependency(%q<minitest>.freeze, [">= 5.0"])