diff --git a/net-mgmt/py-pyzabbix/Makefile b/net-mgmt/py-pyzabbix/Makefile
index a37b9b020998..2528f052de3b 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/py-pyzabbix/Makefile
+++ b/net-mgmt/py-pyzabbix/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
 PORTNAME=	pyzabbix
-PORTVERSION=	1.0.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.2.1
 CATEGORIES=	net-mgmt python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	otis@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Zabbix API Python Library
 WWW=		https://github.com/lukecyca/pyzabbix
 
 LICENSE=	LGPL21
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=1.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=1.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}semantic-version>=2.8.5:devel/py-semantic-version@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python:3.6+
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net-mgmt/py-pyzabbix/distinfo b/net-mgmt/py-pyzabbix/distinfo
index a59c2c78bf4e..877cbf59bb3b 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/py-pyzabbix/distinfo
+++ b/net-mgmt/py-pyzabbix/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1624565034
-SHA256 (pyzabbix-1.0.0.tar.gz) = 4bcde3944f932685dba60551725e1b63de64d463da0e1c281b3121c0805f1c71
-SIZE (pyzabbix-1.0.0.tar.gz) = 5840
+TIMESTAMP = 1664998590
+SHA256 (pyzabbix-1.2.1.tar.gz) = 43aeda2d9792941dce95d06be5a450411efa160b45d658800503b235280a7d57
+SIZE (pyzabbix-1.2.1.tar.gz) = 7138