diff --git a/dev-ruby/rexical/rexical-1.0.8.ebuild b/dev-ruby/rexical/rexical-1.0.8.ebuild
index af98fdea84de..2aa769968bdb 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/rexical/rexical-1.0.8.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/rexical/rexical-1.0.8.ebuild
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
 
-USE_RUBY="ruby31 ruby32 ruby33 ruby34"
+USE_RUBY="ruby32 ruby33 ruby34 ruby40"
 
 RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.rdoc	DOCUMENTATION.en.rdoc  DOCUMENTATION.ja.rdoc  README.ja  README.rdoc"