diff --git a/devel/py-swig/Makefile b/devel/py-swig/Makefile
index 0368a828fe7c..55edf7aef4ea 100644
--- a/devel/py-swig/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-swig/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	swig
-DISTVERSION=	4.4.1
+DISTVERSION=	4.5.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DIST_SUBDIR=	python
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python wrapper for the SWIG code generation tool
 WWW=		https://swig.org/ \
 		https://github.com/nightlark/swig-pypi
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=63.1.0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=0:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	swig:devel/swig
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
-
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-swig/distinfo b/devel/py-swig/distinfo
index 145ac84a0b2f..bc1587467cf3 100644
--- a/devel/py-swig/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-swig/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1779912709
-SHA256 (python/swig-4.4.1.tar.gz) = db9a625653f6454530a6c6553d17cf576d7aa2d253c76dc8cdd5979f0cb15012
-SIZE (python/swig-4.4.1.tar.gz) = 25956
+TIMESTAMP = 1789395631
+SHA256 (python/swig-4.5.0.tar.gz) = eb6594f05a1f87783f981e92501c604ac08cc23bb20fa4e6bd5d3a283819f8a5
+SIZE (python/swig-4.5.0.tar.gz) = 25844
diff --git a/devel/py-swig/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-swig/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index 4103f99a6abc..6be534e6485c 100644
--- a/devel/py-swig/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/devel/py-swig/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,63 +1,63 @@
--- Switch build backend from scikit-build-core to setuptools to avoid
--- the complex CMake build that tries to download SWIG, PCRE2, and Bison
--- from the internet. Instead, we use the system swig from devel/swig.
+-- Switch from scikit-build-core to setuptools so the port does not try to build
+-- the bundled SWIG binary.  Use PEP 621 object form for the license field,
+-- add setuptools package discovery for the source layout, and drop the
+-- console scripts that conflict with devel/swig.
 
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2022-11-09 12:37:21 UTC
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-09-14 21:45:57 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
  [build-system]
 -requires = ["scikit-build-core"]
 -build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
-+requires = ["setuptools>=61", "wheel"]
++requires = ["setuptools>=63.1.0", "setuptools-scm>=0"]
 +build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
- 
+
  [project]
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  name = "swig"
-@@ -21,42 +21,15 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
- ]
+ description = "SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages."
+ keywords = ["swig", "build", "c", "c++"]
+-license = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
++license = {text = "GPL-3.0-or-later"}
+ readme = "README.md"
+ classifiers = [
+   "Programming Language :: C",
+@@ -20,36 +20,10 @@
  dynamic = ["version"]
- 
-+[tool.setuptools]
-+package-dir = {"" = "src"}
-+packages = {find = {where = ["src"]}}
- 
+
+
 -[tool.scikit-build]
 -wheel.py-api = "py3"
 -wheel.expand-macos-universal-tags = true
 -metadata.version.provider = "scikit_build_core.metadata.setuptools_scm"
 -sdist.include = ["src/swig/_version.py"]
 -wheel.install-dir = "swig/data"
-+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
-+version = {attr = "swig._version.__version__"}
- 
++[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
++where = ["src"]
+
 -[tool.cibuildwheel]
 -archs = ["auto64", "auto32"]
 -build = "cp39-*"
 -test-command = [
 -  "swig -version",
 -  "swig -pcreversion",
 -  "swig -help",
 -]
 -environment.PIP_ONLY_BINARY = ":all:"
--
+
 -[tool.cibuildwheel.linux]
 -manylinux-x86_64-image = "quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_x86_64:2022-08-05-4535177"
 -manylinux-i686-image = "quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_i686:2022-08-05-4535177"
 -manylinux-aarch64-image = "manylinux2014"
 -manylinux-ppc64le-image = "manylinux2014"
 -manylinux-s390x-image = "manylinux2014"
 -manylinux-riscv64-image = "ghcr.io/mayeut/manylinux_2_31:2025.07.25-1"
 -
 -
 -[project.scripts]
 -swig = "swig:swig"
 -"swig4.0" = "swig:swig"
 -
  [project.urls]
  Homepage = "https://swig.org/"
  Download = "https://swig.org/download.html"
- "Source Code" = "https://github.com/nightlark/swig-pypi"
- "Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/nightlark/swig-pypi/issues"
--
--[tool.setuptools_scm]
--version_file = "src/swig/_version.py"