diff --git a/ports/readline-unix/portfile.cmake b/ports/readline-unix/portfile.cmake
index 8951f96edfd..68d50ff030a 100644
--- a/ports/readline-unix/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/readline-unix/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
+vcpkg_minimum_required(VERSION 2022-10-12) # for ${VERSION}
+set(filename readline-${VERSION}.tar.gz)
 vcpkg_download_distfile(
-  ARCHIVE
-  URLS https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-8.1.tar.gz
-  FILENAME readline-8.1.tar.gz
-  SHA512 27790d0461da3093a7fee6e89a51dcab5dc61928ec42e9228ab36493b17220641d5e481ea3d8fee5ee0044c70bf960f55c7d3f1a704cf6b9c42e5c269b797e00
+    ARCHIVE
+    URLS
+        "https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/readline/${filename}"
+        "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/${filename}"
+    FILENAME "${filename}"
+    SHA512 0a451d459146bfdeecc9cdd94bda6a6416d3e93abd80885a40b334312f16eb890f8618a27ca26868cebbddf1224983e631b1cbc002c1a4d1cd0d65fba9fea49a
 )
 
 vcpkg_extract_source_archive(SOURCE_PATH ARCHIVE "${ARCHIVE}")
 
 vcpkg_configure_make(
     SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
+    DETERMINE_BUILD_TRIPLET
     OPTIONS
         --with-curses=yes
+        --disable-install-examples
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_make()
 
 file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/share")
-file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/tools/readline-unix/bin" "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/tools/readline-unix/debug/bin")
 
 vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig()
 
diff --git a/ports/readline-unix/vcpkg.json b/ports/readline-unix/vcpkg.json
index 721acc13b11..99e9f2142e6 100644
--- a/ports/readline-unix/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/readline-unix/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
   "name": "readline-unix",
-  "version": "8.1",
-  "port-version": 2,
-  "description": "Implementation of readline for unix",
+  "version": "8.2",
+  "description": "The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in.",
+  "homepage": "https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html",
   "license": "GPL-3.0-or-later",
   "supports": "!windows",
   "dependencies": [
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index fe72e855e7a..d5a3bfcaa51 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -6529,8 +6529,8 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "readline-unix": {
-      "baseline": "8.1",
-      "port-version": 2
+      "baseline": "8.2",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "readline-win32": {
       "baseline": "5.0",
diff --git a/versions/r-/readline-unix.json b/versions/r-/readline-unix.json
index 442ccc2dfe5..e27d0632d25 100644
--- a/versions/r-/readline-unix.json
+++ b/versions/r-/readline-unix.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "19fcd2b764ea6d261dfbd80961833e807cf93ea0",
+      "version": "8.2",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "e81a9fe4baa7c437b6e6d9636ae7c291e2ed81e9",
       "version": "8.1",