diff --git a/net-mgmt/py-arouteserver/Makefile b/net-mgmt/py-arouteserver/Makefile
index 912bdc976c85..f56a9564ca2f 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/py-arouteserver/Makefile
+++ b/net-mgmt/py-arouteserver/Makefile
@@ -1,34 +1,36 @@
 PORTNAME=	arouteserver
-DISTVERSION=	1.16.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.17.0
 CATEGORIES=	net-mgmt python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Tool to automatically build configurations for BGP route servers
 WWW=		https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}aggregate6>=1.0:net-mgmt/py-aggregate6@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}Jinja2>=3.0.0:devel/py-Jinja2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=21.0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=6.0:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.18.4:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}urllib3>=1.26.0:net/py-urllib3@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		bash>0:shells/bash \
 		bgpq4>0:net-mgmt/bgpq4 \
 		ca_root_nss>0:security/ca_root_nss
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}nose>=1.3.7:devel/py-nose@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python shebangfix
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 SHEBANG_FILES=	pierky/arouteserver/config.d/rtt_getter.sh
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 do-test:
 	@(cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} nosetests -vs --tests=tests/external_resources/)
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net-mgmt/py-arouteserver/distinfo b/net-mgmt/py-arouteserver/distinfo
index bffac28b8107..aa2f75499424 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/py-arouteserver/distinfo
+++ b/net-mgmt/py-arouteserver/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1783876885
-SHA256 (arouteserver-1.16.1.tar.gz) = c6f7714cf4c7b696c8b770952bc7e59ce1f1ef658b3d5b2a996a317f4f53a4d6
-SIZE (arouteserver-1.16.1.tar.gz) = 246540
+TIMESTAMP = 1784951040
+SHA256 (arouteserver-1.17.0.tar.gz) = cd6c8fce19ae32f7e70f888ac1db232fd8e963b2ff80022d603beee7a722596a
+SIZE (arouteserver-1.17.0.tar.gz) = 249693