diff --git a/databases/py-mysqlclient/Makefile b/databases/py-mysqlclient/Makefile
index d30f7e88d66b..1558b5f8b4b0 100644
--- a/databases/py-mysqlclient/Makefile
+++ b/databases/py-mysqlclient/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	mysqlclient
-DISTVERSION=	2.2.7
+DISTVERSION=	2.2.8
 CATEGORIES=	databases python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	fluffy@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	MySQL database connector for Python
 WWW=		https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0.37:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		compiler:c11 dos2unix iconv mysql pkgconfig python ssl
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 PORTDOCS=	*
 
 CONFLICTS=	py*-MySQLdb py*-MySQLdb5[0-9] py*-MySQLdb
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		DOCS
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/README.md ${WRKSRC}/doc/* ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/databases/py-mysqlclient/distinfo b/databases/py-mysqlclient/distinfo
index bc1aa4ed361f..89237fa03428 100644
--- a/databases/py-mysqlclient/distinfo
+++ b/databases/py-mysqlclient/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1742854858
-SHA256 (mysqlclient-2.2.7.tar.gz) = 24ae22b59416d5fcce7e99c9d37548350b4565baac82f95e149cac6ce4163845
-SIZE (mysqlclient-2.2.7.tar.gz) = 91383
+TIMESTAMP = 1770727303
+SHA256 (mysqlclient-2.2.8.tar.gz) = 8ed20c5615a915da451bb308c7d0306648a4fd9a2809ba95c992690006306199
+SIZE (mysqlclient-2.2.8.tar.gz) = 92287
diff --git a/databases/py-mysqlclient/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/databases/py-mysqlclient/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1ada54f5d397
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/py-mysqlclient/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-02-10 12:41:57 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = [
+ authors = [
+     {name = "Inada Naoki", email = "songofacandy@gmail.com"}
+ ]
+-license = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
++license = {text = "GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)"}
+ keywords = ["MySQL"]
+ classifiers = [
+     "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",