diff --git a/ftp/lftp/Makefile b/ftp/lftp/Makefile
index e7581fed2d5e..f7e53e42e197 100644
--- a/ftp/lftp/Makefile
+++ b/ftp/lftp/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	lftp
-PORTVERSION=	2.6.7
+PORTVERSION=	2.6.8
 CATEGORIES=	ftp ipv6
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.phear.org/pub/linux/networking/ftp/client/lftp/ \
 		ftp://ftp.phear.org/pub/linux/networking/ftp/client/lftp/old/ \
diff --git a/ftp/lftp/distinfo b/ftp/lftp/distinfo
index ba95cf682945..263c1a4f0854 100644
--- a/ftp/lftp/distinfo
+++ b/ftp/lftp/distinfo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (lftp-2.6.7.tar.bz2) = 31092e7f94b80f8f79c5e71fc7ba636f
+MD5 (lftp-2.6.8.tar.bz2) = 7ca299efb0c0d8bd73baa2fb75308c9e
diff --git a/ftp/lftp/files/patch-src::readline_configure b/ftp/lftp/files/patch-src::readline_configure
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ac5ef087484..000000000000
--- a/ftp/lftp/files/patch-src::readline_configure
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- readline-4.3/configure.orig	Tue Sep 16 14:58:09 2003
-+++ readline-4.3/configure	Tue Sep 16 14:59:08 2003
-@@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@
- 
- 
- ac_aux_dir=
--for ac_dir in ./support $srcdir/./support; do
-+for ac_dir in ./.. $srcdir/./..; do
-   if test -f $ac_dir/install-sh; then
-     ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
-     ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install-sh -c"
-@@ -1304,8 +1304,8 @@
-   fi
- done
- if test -z "$ac_aux_dir"; then
--  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ./support $srcdir/./support" >&5
--echo "$as_me: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ./support $srcdir/./support" >&2;}
-+  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ./.. $srcdir/./.." >&5
-+echo "$as_me: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ./.. $srcdir/./.." >&2;}
-    { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
- fi
- ac_config_guess="$SHELL $ac_aux_dir/config.guess"
-@@ -6331,7 +6331,7 @@
- 
- 
- 
--                                        ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile doc/Makefile examples/Makefile shlib/Makefile"
-+                                        ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile"
-           ac_config_commands="$ac_config_commands default"
- cat >confcache <<\_ACEOF
- # This file is a shell script that caches the results of configure