diff --git a/devel/py-distlib/Makefile b/devel/py-distlib/Makefile
index 007e251b5f26..117925ed4d6b 100644
--- a/devel/py-distlib/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-distlib/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	distlib
-DISTVERSION=	0.4.0
+DISTVERSION=	0.4.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Low-level components of distutils2 and higher-level APIs
 WWW=		https://github.com/pypa/distlib
 
 LICENSE=	PSFL
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest # few tests fail intermittently, see https://github.com/pypa/distlib/issues/205
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_ENV=	PYTHONHASHSEED=0 # needed for tests to succeed
 
+# tests as of 0.4.1: 1 failed, 222 passed, 21 skipped, 49 warnings in 21.39s
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-distlib/distinfo b/devel/py-distlib/distinfo
index 04b6e5179a30..4646dd08df70 100644
--- a/devel/py-distlib/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-distlib/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1777559512
-SHA256 (distlib-0.4.0.tar.gz) = feec40075be03a04501a973d81f633735b4b69f98b05450592310c0f401a4e0d
-SIZE (distlib-0.4.0.tar.gz) = 614605
+TIMESTAMP = 1780468606
+SHA256 (distlib-0.4.1.tar.gz) = c3804d0d2d4b5fcd44036eb860cb6660485fcdf5c2aba53dc324d805837ea65b
+SIZE (distlib-0.4.1.tar.gz) = 610526
diff --git a/devel/py-distlib/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-distlib/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8d88fa5bf700
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-distlib/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+-- Relax setuptools version requirement
+-- Upper limits on dependencies often break builds in the ports tree
+
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-06-03 06:40:03 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ requires = [
+ [build-system]
+ requires = [
+-    "setuptools >= 68,<75",
++    "setuptools >= 63",
+     "wheel"
+ ]
+ build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'