diff --git a/science/py-xbout/Makefile b/science/py-xbout/Makefile
index 1afc7238febc..7dbbb4479841 100644
--- a/science/py-xbout/Makefile
+++ b/science/py-xbout/Makefile
@@ -1,36 +1,35 @@
 PORTNAME=	xbout
-DISTVERSION=	0.3.5
-PORTREVISION=	4
+DISTVERSION=	0.3.8
 CATEGORIES=	science education
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Collect data from BOUT++ runs in python using xarray
 WWW=		https://github.com/boutproject/xBOUT
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-PY_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}animatplot>=0.4.2:math/py-animatplot@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>0:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm_git_archive>0:devel/py-setuptools_scm_git_archive@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}animatplot-ng>=0.4.2:math/py-animatplot-ng@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}boutdata>=0.1.4:science/py-boutdata@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}dask>=2.10.0:devel/py-dask@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}gelidum>=0.5.3:devel/py-gelidum@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}matplotlib>=3.1.1:math/py-matplotlib@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}natsort>=5.5.0:devel/py-natsort@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}netCDF4>=1.4.0:science/py-netCDF4@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pillow>=6.1.0:graphics/py-pillow@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}xarray>=0.18.0:devel/py-xarray@${PY_FLAVOR}
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>0:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm_git_archive>0:devel/py-setuptools_scm_git_archive@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PY_DEPENDS}
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PY_DEPENDS}
+		${PY_PILLOW} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}xarray>=2023.01.0:devel/py-xarray@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils pytest
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/xbout/tests
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/science/py-xbout/distinfo b/science/py-xbout/distinfo
index bd6fdc6d2827..44330194d403 100644
--- a/science/py-xbout/distinfo
+++ b/science/py-xbout/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1674265184
-SHA256 (xbout-0.3.5.tar.gz) = 203f86c8805763d72831fde61d77299629541c8ed368932a82da8aeef9283ead
-SIZE (xbout-0.3.5.tar.gz) = 4797915
+TIMESTAMP = 1774983861
+SHA256 (xbout-0.3.8.tar.gz) = 9d17f3425b46304d837dff514b3d1541f85e5de69eaa43629c1806220b4a0b26
+SIZE (xbout-0.3.8.tar.gz) = 4814159
diff --git a/science/py-xbout/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/science/py-xbout/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8f729fc66e73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/science/py-xbout/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-04-01 18:51:28 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ requires = [
+ [build-system]
+ requires = [
+-    "setuptools >= 65",
++    "setuptools",
+     "setuptools_scm[toml] >= 7",
+-    "wheel >= 0.29.0",
++    "wheel",
+ ]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+