diff --git a/devel/py-websockets/Makefile b/devel/py-websockets/Makefile
index 06f4bf177d17..e7e12b3c9386 100644
--- a/devel/py-websockets/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-websockets/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	websockets
-PORTVERSION=	15.0.1
+PORTVERSION=	16.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	ehaupt@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Implementation of the WebSocket Protocol (RFC 6455 and 7692)
 WWW=		https://pypi.org/project/websockets/ \
 		https://github.com/python-websockets/websockets
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=39.2.0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		cpe python
 CPE_VENDOR=	${PORTNAME}_project
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 post-install:
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/websockets/speedups*.so
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-websockets/distinfo b/devel/py-websockets/distinfo
index ad22b789a93e..db307b2ab0ab 100644
--- a/devel/py-websockets/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-websockets/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1741275291
-SHA256 (websockets-15.0.1.tar.gz) = 82544de02076bafba038ce055ee6412d68da13ab47f0c60cab827346de828dee
-SIZE (websockets-15.0.1.tar.gz) = 177016
+TIMESTAMP = 1768421031
+SHA256 (websockets-16.0.tar.gz) = 5f6261a5e56e8d5c42a4497b364ea24d94d9563e8fbd44e78ac40879c60179b5
+SIZE (websockets-16.0.tar.gz) = 179346
diff --git a/devel/py-websockets/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-websockets/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..682b1cb3a615
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-websockets/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-01-10 09:08:31 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.10"
+ name = "websockets"
+ description = "An implementation of the WebSocket Protocol (RFC 6455 & 7692)"
+ requires-python = ">=3.10"
+-license = "BSD-3-Clause"
++license = { text = "BSD-3-Clause" }
+ authors = [
+     { name = "Aymeric Augustin", email = "aymeric.augustin@m4x.org" },
+ ]