diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
index aec056963f17..77444de017ac 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,40 +1,40 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.7.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.7.3
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM)
 WWW=		https://xgboost.ai/
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/../LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	cmake:devel/cmake-core
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libdmlc.so:devel/dmlc-core \
 		libxgboost.so:misc/xgboost
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scipy>0:science/py-scipy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest>0:devel/py-pytest@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 
 USES=		compiler:c11 python:3.5+ localbase:ldflags
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils pytest # Python tests are broken because py-scikit-learn is missing the py-threadpoolctl dependency which is also currently broken
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	dmlc
 
 WRKSRC_SUBDIR=	python-package
 
 PYDISTUTILS_INSTALLARGS=	--use-system-libxgboost # this is ignored so that setup.py has to be patched, see https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/6879
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/../tests/python
 
 post-install:
 	${PYTHON_CMD} -m compileall -d ${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo b/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
index 6e14f4ff6056..a8517cad54a4 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1667620826
-SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = f2ae7ed3890950ebf28f63eeb59f4d1c10e997fb765fee40e7a2982befd21ed9
-SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1864706
+TIMESTAMP = 1673176848
+SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.3_GH0.tar.gz) = ed5487c81627e7401924e881398c9bda6efc12ee329bcd1aea20866434f4d98a
+SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 1867653
diff --git a/misc/xgboost/Makefile b/misc/xgboost/Makefile
index d0c95eae32c5..0dc7eb35e432 100644
--- a/misc/xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,36 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.7.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.7.3
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM)
 WWW=		https://xgboost.ai/
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BROKEN_armv7=	compilation fails: non-constant-expression cannot be narrowed from type 'unsigned long long' to 'size_t', see https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/8489
 BROKEN_i386=	compilation fails: non-constant-expression cannot be narrowed from type 'unsigned long long' to 'size_t', see https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/8489
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libdmlc.so:devel/dmlc-core
+TEST_DEPENDS=	googletest>0:devel/googletest
 
 USES=		cmake:testing compiler:c++11-lang localbase:ldflags
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	dmlc
 GH_TUPLE=	\
 		NVlabs:cub:af39ee2:NVlabs_cub/cub \
 		rapidsai:gputreeshap:acb5be3:rapidsai_gputreeshap/gputreeshap
 
 LDFLAGS+=	${LOCALBASE}/lib/libdmlc.so -lexecinfo
 
 CMAKE_TESTING_ON=	GOOGLE_TEST # 1 test fails, see https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/8425
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		OPENMP
 
 OPENMP_CMAKE_BOOL=	USE_OPENMP
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/xgboost/distinfo b/misc/xgboost/distinfo
index 3339c2e20989..ce410cc50f0d 100644
--- a/misc/xgboost/distinfo
+++ b/misc/xgboost/distinfo
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1667614680
-SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = f2ae7ed3890950ebf28f63eeb59f4d1c10e997fb765fee40e7a2982befd21ed9
-SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1864706
+TIMESTAMP = 1673176237
+SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.3_GH0.tar.gz) = ed5487c81627e7401924e881398c9bda6efc12ee329bcd1aea20866434f4d98a
+SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 1867653
 SHA256 (NVlabs-cub-af39ee2_GH0.tar.gz) = 3444f1d0af16d3680bf5089c1a91e707769d946580b80f12463860366fb6884b
 SIZE (NVlabs-cub-af39ee2_GH0.tar.gz) = 413215
 SHA256 (rapidsai-gputreeshap-acb5be3_GH0.tar.gz) = c2b67f8f398000570cac6b9d82a0bdab251105391602a3e07fd497c5e61534c4
 SIZE (rapidsai-gputreeshap-acb5be3_GH0.tar.gz) = 61972