diff --git a/databases/py-tiledb/Makefile b/databases/py-tiledb/Makefile
index 89b97fb1ae48..80d5da4db6ec 100644
--- a/databases/py-tiledb/Makefile
+++ b/databases/py-tiledb/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
 # Created by: Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	tiledb
-PORTVERSION=	0.8.7
+PORTVERSION=	0.8.8
 CATEGORIES=	databases python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python interface to the TileDB array storage manager
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 NOT_FOR_ARCHS=	i386
 NOT_FOR_ARCHS_REASON=	is currently 64-bit only
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cython>=0.27:lang/cython@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pybind11>=2.6.2:devel/py-pybind11@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm>=1.5.4:devel/py-setuptools_scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		tiledb>=2.2.7:databases/tiledb
+		tiledb>=2.2.8:databases/tiledb
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libtiledb.so:databases/tiledb
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang localbase python:3.6+
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython distutils
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if ${PYTHON_REL} < 3700
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}dataclasses>=0:devel/py-dataclasses@${PY_FLAVOR}
 .endif
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/databases/py-tiledb/distinfo b/databases/py-tiledb/distinfo
index 48ca338b01a3..1d5d8460cfe6 100644
--- a/databases/py-tiledb/distinfo
+++ b/databases/py-tiledb/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1619725341
-SHA256 (tiledb-0.8.7.tar.gz) = 79f9371cfb9d101c70cf20624f851d0679caf9ca8b527106fad93afc4d38ce94
-SIZE (tiledb-0.8.7.tar.gz) = 205466
+TIMESTAMP = 1619910319
+SHA256 (tiledb-0.8.8.tar.gz) = 866ceeac1b4e7cef4e492a5e5b22461d07df9ffdd455d7e145f2ac1808521bb8
+SIZE (tiledb-0.8.8.tar.gz) = 203426
diff --git a/databases/py-tiledb/files/patch-setup.py b/databases/py-tiledb/files/patch-setup.py
index 530c7a44bedb..6814c4e2861d 100644
--- a/databases/py-tiledb/files/patch-setup.py
+++ b/databases/py-tiledb/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
---- setup.py.orig	2021-04-11 12:39:58 UTC
+--- setup.py.orig	2021-04-30 20:41:45 UTC
 +++ setup.py
-@@ -517,11 +517,9 @@ def cmake_available():
+@@ -487,11 +487,9 @@ def cmake_available():
  def setup_requires():
      req = [
          "cython>=0.27",
 -        "numpy==1.16.* ; python_version < '3.9'",
 -        "numpy ; python_version >= '3.9'",
 +        "numpy>=1.16",
          "setuptools>=18.0",
          "setuptools_scm>=1.5.4",
 -        "wheel>=0.30",
          "pybind11>=2.6.2",
      ]
      # Add cmake requirement if libtiledb is not found and cmake is not available.
-@@ -721,7 +719,6 @@ setup(
+@@ -684,7 +682,6 @@ setup(
      setup_requires=setup_requires(),
      install_requires=[
          "numpy>=1.16",
 -        "wheel>=0.30",
          "dataclasses ;python_version<'3.7'",
      ],
-     tests_require=TESTS_REQUIRE,
+     packages=find_packages(),