diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
index bbe49e906a87..07df65f39569 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,44 +1,44 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.6.0
+DISTVERSION=	1.6.1
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM)
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/../LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	cmake:devel/cmake
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libdmlc.so:devel/dmlc-core \
 		libxgboost.so:misc/xgboost
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scipy>0:science/py-scipy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest>0:devel/py-pytest@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 
 USES=		compiler:c11 python:3.5+ localbase:ldflags
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	dmlc
 
 WRKSRC_SUBDIR=	python-package
 
 PYDISTUTILS_INSTALLARGS=	--use-system-libxgboost # this is ignored so that setup.py has to be patched, see https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/6879
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 POST_PLIST=	fix-plist
 
 fix-plist: # https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/5705
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|.*libxgboost${PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX}.so$$||' ${TMPPLIST}
 
 post-install:
 	${PYTHON_CMD} -m compileall -d ${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}
 
 do-test: # tests fail w/out CUDA: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/6881
 	@cd ${WRKSRC}/.. && ${PYTHON_CMD} -m pytest
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo b/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
index 21125d76240c..3334805f9271 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1650230831
-SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 035706af59d842d03e23d6eb2c9a146ae7c2832f66aed2a4703b4c32209cce40
-SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 1755620
+TIMESTAMP = 1652131151
+SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.6.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 76d932558606ea6047b4b9a547794d5eec47028713ddcef68baec5317a9761d0
+SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.6.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1752874
diff --git a/misc/xgboost/Makefile b/misc/xgboost/Makefile
index 3cd910c0192e..563d12e576d5 100644
--- a/misc/xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.6.0
+DISTVERSION=	1.6.1
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM)
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libdmlc.so:devel/dmlc-core
 
 USES=		cmake:testing compiler:c++11-lang localbase:ldflags
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	dmlc
 GH_TUPLE=	\
 		NVlabs:cub:af39ee2:NVlabs_cub/cub \
 		rapidsai:gputreeshap:5bba198:rapidsai_gputreeshap/gputreeshap
 
 LDFLAGS+=	${LOCALBASE}/lib/libdmlc.so -lexecinfo
 
 CMAKE_TESTING_ON=	GOOGLE_TEST
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		OPENMP
 
 OPENMP_CMAKE_BOOL=	USE_OPENMP
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/xgboost/distinfo b/misc/xgboost/distinfo
index 2ec1e3eb3c43..73c19e60643f 100644
--- a/misc/xgboost/distinfo
+++ b/misc/xgboost/distinfo
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1650229980
-SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 035706af59d842d03e23d6eb2c9a146ae7c2832f66aed2a4703b4c32209cce40
-SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 1755620
+TIMESTAMP = 1652130939
+SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.6.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 76d932558606ea6047b4b9a547794d5eec47028713ddcef68baec5317a9761d0
+SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.6.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1752874
 SHA256 (NVlabs-cub-af39ee2_GH0.tar.gz) = 3444f1d0af16d3680bf5089c1a91e707769d946580b80f12463860366fb6884b
 SIZE (NVlabs-cub-af39ee2_GH0.tar.gz) = 413215
 SHA256 (rapidsai-gputreeshap-5bba198_GH0.tar.gz) = bad0d98eddff46e298f4c6be71b140ac8573b2d1740f109f3151097c56f18463
 SIZE (rapidsai-gputreeshap-5bba198_GH0.tar.gz) = 32468