diff --git a/converters/py-rencode/Makefile b/converters/py-rencode/Makefile
index 88c8f5e04e07..35f49b03551b 100644
--- a/converters/py-rencode/Makefile
+++ b/converters/py-rencode/Makefile
@@ -1,32 +1,28 @@
 PORTNAME=	rencode
-PORTVERSION=	1.0.8
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	1.0.9
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 CATEGORIES=	converters devel python
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	python@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Web safe object pickling/unpickling
 WWW=		https://github.com/aresch/rencode
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}poetry-core>=0:devel/py-poetry-core@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=61.0.0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		cpe python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist cython pep517 pytest
 
 CPE_VENDOR=	rencode_project
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	aresch
 
-post-patch:
-	@${MV} ${WRKSRC}/build.py ${WRKSRC}/_build.py
-
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} -name '*.so' -exec ${STRIP_CMD} {} +
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/converters/py-rencode/distinfo b/converters/py-rencode/distinfo
index 744cb7ee2e14..8dca7927a218 100644
--- a/converters/py-rencode/distinfo
+++ b/converters/py-rencode/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1748831318
-SHA256 (aresch-rencode-v1.0.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 480aab74948a7f339b749b5c39bdb4caf15429f4b49a998c770d5f371098d351
-SIZE (aresch-rencode-v1.0.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 26072
+TIMESTAMP = 1789389404
+SHA256 (aresch-rencode-v1.0.9_GH0.tar.gz) = 6d7b7f2320271d8deeaadfaf98705149c4cef7ae5e104baa0c3812d7b820fe8d
+SIZE (aresch-rencode-v1.0.9_GH0.tar.gz) = 52578
diff --git a/converters/py-rencode/files/patch-build.py b/converters/py-rencode/files/patch-build.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a5bc1187c46..000000000000
--- a/converters/py-rencode/files/patch-build.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- build.py.orig	2025-07-30 20:26:01 UTC
-+++ build.py
-@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
- from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
- 
- 
--COMPILE_ARGS = ["-march=native", "-O3", "-msse", "-msse2", "-mfma", "-mfpmath=sse"]
- LINK_ARGS: list[str] = []
- INCLUDE_DIRS: list[str] = []
- LIBRARIES: list[str] = []
-@@ -22,7 +21,6 @@ def build() -> None:
-         Extension(
-             "*",
-             ["rencode/*.pyx"],
--            extra_compile_args=COMPILE_ARGS,
-             extra_link_args=LINK_ARGS,
-             include_dirs=INCLUDE_DIRS,
-             libraries=LIBRARIES,
diff --git a/converters/py-rencode/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/converters/py-rencode/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index eb1050c55f5a..a41326722807 100644
--- a/converters/py-rencode/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/converters/py-rencode/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-05-29 19:52:15 UTC
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-09-12 20:44:11 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ exclude = ['rencode/*.c']
- exclude = ['rencode/*.c']
+@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
+ version = "1.0.9"
+ description = "rencode is an object serialization library similar to bencode from the Bittorrent project."
+ readme = "README.md"
+-license = "GPL-3.0-only"
++license = {text = "GPL-3.0-only"}
+ requires-python = ">=3.9"
+ authors = [
+     {name = "Andrew Resch", email = "andrewresch@gmail.com"},
+@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ dev = [
+ ]
  
- [tool.poetry.build]
--script = "build.py"
-+script = "_build.py"
+ [build-system]
+-requires = ["setuptools>=64.0.0", "cython>=3.0.0"]
++requires = ["setuptools>=61.0.0", "cython>=3.0.0"]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
  
- [tool.poetry.dependencies]
- python = "^3.9"
+ [tool.setuptools.packages.find]