diff --git a/devel/py-awscrt/Makefile b/devel/py-awscrt/Makefile
index 7f5f63aa67e8..4697f05445a5 100644
--- a/devel/py-awscrt/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-awscrt/Makefile
@@ -1,42 +1,42 @@
 PORTNAME=	awscrt
-PORTVERSION=	0.24.2
+PORTVERSION=	0.26.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Common runtime for AWS Python projects
 WWW=		https://github.com/awslabs/aws-crt-python
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libaws-c-auth.so:security/aws-c-auth \
 		libaws-c-cal.so:security/aws-c-cal \
 		libaws-c-common.so:devel/aws-c-common \
 		libaws-c-compression.so:devel/aws-c-compression \
 		libaws-c-event-stream.so:devel/aws-c-event-stream \
 		libaws-c-http.so:devel/aws-c-http \
 		libaws-c-io.so:devel/aws-c-io \
 		libaws-c-mqtt.so:devel/aws-c-mqtt \
 		libaws-c-s3.so:devel/aws-c-s3 \
 		libaws-c-sdkutils.so:devel/aws-c-sdkutils \
 		libaws-checksums.so:devel/aws-checksums \
 		libcrypto.so:security/aws-lc \
 		libs2n.so:security/s2n-tls
 
 USES=		localbase:ldflags python ssl
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 MAKE_ENV=	AWS_CRT_BUILD_USE_SYSTEM_LIBCRYPTO=1
 
 # Clean up bundled libraries
 post-patch:
 	@${RM} -r ${WRKSRC}/crt/
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} -name '*.so' -exec ${STRIP_CMD} {} +
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-awscrt/distinfo b/devel/py-awscrt/distinfo
index 420904176bf9..12c9a9828f6d 100644
--- a/devel/py-awscrt/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-awscrt/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1742070336
-SHA256 (awscrt-0.24.2.tar.gz) = b2a6bffb99c56c36268d1359ad833c179f31ae796ccfbed9bf55c34846e131d0
-SIZE (awscrt-0.24.2.tar.gz) = 77124511
+TIMESTAMP = 1744288860
+SHA256 (awscrt-0.26.1.tar.gz) = a8d63a7dcc6484c5c1675b31a8d1b6726c3dc85b13796fb143dfb0072260935e
+SIZE (awscrt-0.26.1.tar.gz) = 77265756