diff --git a/textproc/xml2rfc/Makefile b/textproc/xml2rfc/Makefile
index c787a05bbcae..44cbf9a7deee 100644
--- a/textproc/xml2rfc/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/xml2rfc/Makefile
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
 PORTNAME=	xml2rfc
-PORTVERSION=	3.29.0
+PORTVERSION=	3.30.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	marcus@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Tool to create RFCs and related documents from XML
 WWW=		https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0.44.0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lxml5>=5.3.0:devel/py-lxml5@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.5.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}country>=22.3.5:devel/py-country@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}intervaltree>=3.1.0:devel/py-intervaltree@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google-i18n-address>=3.0.0:devel/py-google-i18n-address@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}configargparse>=1.2.3:devel/py-configargparse@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}Jinja2>=3.1.2:devel/py-Jinja2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=5.3.1:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wcwidth>=0.2.5:devel/py-wcwidth@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}platformdirs>=3.6.0:devel/py-platformdirs@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist concurrent optsuffix
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/xml2rfc/distinfo b/textproc/xml2rfc/distinfo
index 2779f28976ad..3c1c1c784127 100644
--- a/textproc/xml2rfc/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/xml2rfc/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1750084346
-SHA256 (xml2rfc-3.29.0.tar.gz) = 82a1806095ea9a83caa9ee6923bf50f7b7686325042e3e023e34984a54c822db
-SIZE (xml2rfc-3.29.0.tar.gz) = 421126
+TIMESTAMP = 1754145992
+SHA256 (xml2rfc-3.30.0.tar.gz) = b977b26edd5d930020966fa4692fc7fcdcb4f7401a8429981d4cbc0cc4bbba25
+SIZE (xml2rfc-3.30.0.tar.gz) = 420650
diff --git a/textproc/xml2rfc/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/textproc/xml2rfc/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7d7d8229d888
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/xml2rfc/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-08-02 14:54:40 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.9"
+ description = "xml2rfc generates RFCs and IETF drafts from document source in XML according to the IETF xml2rfc v2 and v3 vocabularies."
+ readme = "README.md"
+ requires-python = ">=3.9"
+-license = "BSD-3-Clause"
+-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
++license = {file = "LICENSE"}
+ authors = [{name = "IETF Tools", email = "tools-help@ietf.org"}]
+ keywords = ["ietf", "rfc", "id", "internet-draft", "xml", "xml2rfc", "xmlrfc"]
+ classifiers = [