diff --git a/science/py-kim-query/Makefile b/science/py-kim-query/Makefile
index 2f1dd6e50dad..d1922f02d51c 100644
--- a/science/py-kim-query/Makefile
+++ b/science/py-kim-query/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	kim-query
-DISTVERSION=	3.0.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	4.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	science python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
+DISTNAME=	kim_query-${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Helper routines for querying the OpenKIM repository
 WWW=		https://github.com/openkim/kim-query
 
 LICENSE=	CDDL
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}versioneer>0:devel/py-versioneer@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+# tests as of 2026-04-29
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/science/py-kim-query/distinfo b/science/py-kim-query/distinfo
index 15fd7566b5eb..84e868f1f998 100644
--- a/science/py-kim-query/distinfo
+++ b/science/py-kim-query/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1652031117
-SHA256 (kim-query-3.0.0.tar.gz) = f02031dab5e1c872ade93f5b52257d7f6ce3de8107dd52ac73661b00d26297af
-SIZE (kim-query-3.0.0.tar.gz) = 29629
+TIMESTAMP = 1777476171
+SHA256 (kim_query-4.0.0.tar.gz) = 61f01e996b51cd2107690b247a6083f29e8621b920c99a5280f49bcae51a41d8
+SIZE (kim_query-4.0.0.tar.gz) = 19559