diff --git a/devel/py-pyTooling/Makefile b/devel/py-pyTooling/Makefile
index 263ce84837ee..f6ed9aad2d40 100644
--- a/devel/py-pyTooling/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-pyTooling/Makefile
@@ -1,40 +1,42 @@
 PORTNAME=	pyTooling
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	6.7.0
+DISTVERSION=	8.0.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 #MASTER_SITES=	PYPI # requirements.txt is missing
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Collection of arbitrary classes, decorators, meta-classes, exceptions
 WWW=		https://pytooling.github.io/pyTooling/
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.md
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0.40.0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}anytree>=2.8.0:devel/py-anytree@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}colorama>=0.4.6:devel/py-colorama@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}coverage>0:devel/py-coverage@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}igraph>0:math/py-igraph@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}itertree>0:devel/py-itertree@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lxml>0:devel/py-lxml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}mypy>=1.10:devel/py-mypy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}networkx>=2.6:math/py-networkx@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-benchmark>=4.0.0:devel/py-pytest-benchmark@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-cov>0:devel/py-pytest-cov@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ruamel.yaml>=0.17:devel/py-ruamel.yaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}treelib>0:devel/py-treelib@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest # 8 tests fail, see https://github.com/pyTooling/pyTooling/issues/123#issuecomment-2362275029
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 
 TEST_ARGS=	${WRKSRC}/tests/unit # skip performance and other tests
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}
 
+# tests as of 8.0.1: 7 failed, 829 passed, 17 skipped, 6 xfailed in 18.51s
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-pyTooling/distinfo b/devel/py-pyTooling/distinfo
index 33efffb70bb8..8a041f5b3b8d 100644
--- a/devel/py-pyTooling/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-pyTooling/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1727590100
-SHA256 (pyTooling-pyTooling-v6.7.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 60ee183f112b35364c4ddbb6de3ecadf700e9ef4459dff9f2b407760d0e7c661
-SIZE (pyTooling-pyTooling-v6.7.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 696696
+TIMESTAMP = 1731315335
+SHA256 (pyTooling-pyTooling-v8.0.1_GH0.tar.gz) = c3863671c39a25e978d15adac50f7134581e3bfc3cb7c4f35e81ce3ce9142af3
+SIZE (pyTooling-pyTooling-v8.0.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 712579
diff --git a/devel/py-pyTooling/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-pyTooling/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index d4f7a0f9c1ac..8871c763103a 100644
--- a/devel/py-pyTooling/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/devel/py-pyTooling/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2024-09-23 05:29:04 UTC
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2024-11-10 11:31:03 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ requires = [
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ requires = [
  [build-system]
  requires = [
--  "setuptools ~= 75.1",
+-  "setuptools ~= 75.3",
+-  "wheel ~= 0.45",
 +  "setuptools",
-   "wheel ~= 0.44",
-   "pyTooling ~= 6.6"
++  "wheel",
+   "pyTooling ~= 8.0"
  ]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"