diff --git a/dev-php/pecl-ssh2/pecl-ssh2-9999.ebuild b/dev-php/pecl-ssh2/pecl-ssh2-9999.ebuild
index 3a5b4f3cb3ba4..2e15a59f37c71 100644
--- a/dev-php/pecl-ssh2/pecl-ssh2-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-php/pecl-ssh2/pecl-ssh2-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI="8"
 
 PHP_EXT_NAME="ssh2"
 
-USE_PHP="php8-1 php8-2"
+USE_PHP="php8-2 php8-3"
 EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/php/pecl-networking-ssh2.git"
 
 inherit php-ext-source-r3 git-r3
 
 DESCRIPTION="PHP bindings for the libssh2 library"
-LICENSE="PHP-3.01"
-SLOT="7"
-IUSE=""
-KEYWORDS=""
-DEPEND=">=net-libs/libssh2-1.2"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 HOMEPAGE="https://pecl.php.net/package/ssh2"
+LICENSE="PHP-3.01"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS=""
+# Upstream notes say there are errors with gcrypt backend
+DEPEND=">=net-libs/libssh2-1.2[-gcrypt]"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"