diff --git a/misc/py-ibm-watsonx-ai/Makefile b/misc/py-ibm-watsonx-ai/Makefile
index 508774e629a5..f22581f34dec 100644
--- a/misc/py-ibm-watsonx-ai/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-ibm-watsonx-ai/Makefile
@@ -1,38 +1,39 @@
 PORTNAME=	ibm-watsonx-ai
-PORTVERSION=	1.5.14
+PORTVERSION=	1.6.0
 CATEGORIES=	misc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/g}-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	IBM watsonx.ai API Client
 WWW=		https://pypi.org/project/ibm-watsonx-ai/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}build>0:devel/py-build@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cachetools>=0:devel/py-cachetools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}certifi>=0:security/py-certifi@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}httpx>=0.27:www/py-httpx@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ibm-cos-sdk>=2.12.0:misc/py-ibm-cos-sdk@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lomond>0:www/py-lomond@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pandas>=0.24.2:math/py-pandas@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tabulate>0:devel/py-tabulate@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}urllib3>=0:net/py-urllib3@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 post-extract:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/^license = "\([^"]*\)"/license = {text = "\1"}/' \
 		-e '/^license-files/d' \
 		-e 's/exclude = \["tests\.\*", "tests"\]/exclude = ["tests.*", "tests", "docs", "docs.*", "scripts", "scripts.*"]/' \
 		${WRKSRC}/pyproject.toml
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-ibm-watsonx-ai/distinfo b/misc/py-ibm-watsonx-ai/distinfo
index c6198cd26f84..346398ada8d3 100644
--- a/misc/py-ibm-watsonx-ai/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-ibm-watsonx-ai/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1783087764
-SHA256 (ibm_watsonx_ai-1.5.14.tar.gz) = a756488bd57e87c0fc51be42dcba871143cfe0ac1e805c497c5047e1e4f13e9d
-SIZE (ibm_watsonx_ai-1.5.14.tar.gz) = 735804
+TIMESTAMP = 1785187699
+SHA256 (ibm_watsonx_ai-1.6.0.tar.gz) = 707dbfe8c641a0053114037c2e56f85fa20028c50af20d96338c3ac92185e0d7
+SIZE (ibm_watsonx_ai-1.6.0.tar.gz) = 739403