diff --git a/devel/rubygem-simplecov/Makefile b/devel/rubygem-simplecov/Makefile
index bfc1f9aa48fd..4a40c3cc1b81 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-simplecov/Makefile
+++ b/devel/rubygem-simplecov/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	simplecov
-PORTVERSION=	0.15.1
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	0.16.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
@@ -10,9 +9,9 @@ MAINTAINER=	ruby@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
-LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/MIT-LICENSE
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-docile>=1.1.0:devel/rubygem-docile \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	rubygem-docile>=1.1:devel/rubygem-docile \
 		rubygem-json>=1.8:devel/rubygem-json \
 		rubygem-simplecov-html>=0.10.0:textproc/rubygem-simplecov-html
 
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-simplecov/distinfo b/devel/rubygem-simplecov/distinfo
index 1a0ae630e50d..8a71b713701b 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-simplecov/distinfo
+++ b/devel/rubygem-simplecov/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1505229700
-SHA256 (rubygem/simplecov-0.15.1.gem) = b201d2c89a33b5478b138b7df0f771a395ec3da7cf9b60b3063abf3bfd3cf47f
-SIZE (rubygem/simplecov-0.15.1.gem) = 64000
+TIMESTAMP = 1521209696
+SHA256 (rubygem/simplecov-0.16.1.gem) = 8724f0911bbb2b7a3c11155e6d57987cad311f9e5ce7b305b1e2e67fdc73dee9
+SIZE (rubygem/simplecov-0.16.1.gem) = 38912
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-simplecov/files/patch-gemspec b/devel/rubygem-simplecov/files/patch-gemspec
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cdb773a6091..000000000000
--- a/devel/rubygem-simplecov/files/patch-gemspec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- simplecov.gemspec.orig	2018-01-12 13:13:15 UTC
-+++ simplecov.gemspec
-@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
-     if Gem::Version.new(Gem::VERSION) >= Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') then
-       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<json>.freeze, ["< 3", ">= 1.8"])
-       s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<simplecov-html>.freeze, ["~> 0.10.0"])
--      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<docile>.freeze, ["~> 1.1.0"])
-+      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<docile>.freeze, ["~> 1.1"])
-       s.add_development_dependency(%q<bundler>.freeze, ["~> 1.9"])
-     else
-       s.add_dependency(%q<json>.freeze, ["< 3", ">= 1.8"])