diff --git a/misc/py-histoprint/Makefile b/misc/py-histoprint/Makefile
index 67df55e4f686..b7c881d84fe8 100644
--- a/misc/py-histoprint/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-histoprint/Makefile
@@ -1,28 +1,29 @@
 PORTNAME=	histoprint
-DISTVERSION=	2.5.0
-PORTREVISION=	3
+DISTVERSION=	2.6.0
 CATEGORIES=	misc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Pretty printing of histograms to the console
 WWW=		https://github.com/scikit-hep/histoprint
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>0:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatch-vcs>0:devel/py-hatch-vcs@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatchling>0:devel/py-hatchling@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}click>=7.0.0:devel/py-click@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pandas>0:math/py-pandas@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>0:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}uhi>=0.2.1:misc/py-uhi@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist pytest
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
+# tests as of 2.6.0: 5 passed, 2 skipped in 0.51s
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-histoprint/distinfo b/misc/py-histoprint/distinfo
index a660f9578e57..2380e46d1c79 100644
--- a/misc/py-histoprint/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-histoprint/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1731046991
-SHA256 (histoprint-2.5.0.tar.gz) = 9097e7396ab3a9a83c916f7e53c462ea46e4f645c1ad91604738f2d8383efd4f
-SIZE (histoprint-2.5.0.tar.gz) = 360296
+TIMESTAMP = 1785187664
+SHA256 (histoprint-2.6.0.tar.gz) = e1df729350455b457e97f20883537ae74522879e7c33c609df12f247cca4a21d
+SIZE (histoprint-2.6.0.tar.gz) = 353540