diff --git a/devel/py-hunter/Makefile b/devel/py-hunter/Makefile
index dce3a686f4fd..6d227bf44385 100644
--- a/devel/py-hunter/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-hunter/Makefile
@@ -1,28 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	hunter
-DISTVERSION=	3.7.0
+DISTVERSION=	3.9.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Flexible code tracing toolkit
 WWW=		https://github.com/ionelmc/python-hunter
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=3.3.1:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}aspectlib>0:devel/py-aspectlib@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}process-tests>0:devel/py-process-tests@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 cython autoplist pytest # tests depend on a non-existent module, see https://github.com/ionelmc/python-hunter/issues/116
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
 post-install:
 	@${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX} -name "*.so" | ${XARGS} ${STRIP_CMD}
 
+# tests as of 3.9.0: 174 passed, 12 failed in 367.23s
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-hunter/distinfo b/devel/py-hunter/distinfo
index 1a0b94752154..97ed4ab1ef12 100644
--- a/devel/py-hunter/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-hunter/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1714721327
-SHA256 (hunter-3.7.0.tar.gz) = 16f4fb4dbde366bac61ebf235bc4d075bfd8748009c8a4e0327d2fbca6f611d6
-SIZE (hunter-3.7.0.tar.gz) = 672577
+TIMESTAMP = 1781232756
+SHA256 (hunter-3.9.0.tar.gz) = d953a4a8087bb8a6746f06bd6b4dd7c61bc6c60a57012139618fea7aeca2ffe2
+SIZE (hunter-3.9.0.tar.gz) = 656954
diff --git a/devel/py-hunter/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-hunter/files/patch-pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index f7abe2f37aeb..000000000000
--- a/devel/py-hunter/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2023-04-27 06:43:19 UTC
-+++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- [build-system]
- requires = [
--    "setuptools>=64.0.0",
-+    "setuptools",
-     "wheel",
-     "setuptools_scm>=3.3.1,!=4.0.0",
- ]