diff --git a/devel/py-python-rapidjson/Makefile b/devel/py-python-rapidjson/Makefile
index e6871183fd1a..39421ad003e6 100644
--- a/devel/py-python-rapidjson/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-python-rapidjson/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	python-rapidjson
-DISTVERSION=	1.14
+DISTVERSION=	1.16
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python wrapper around rapidjson
 WWW=		https://github.com/python-rapidjson/python-rapidjson
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytz>0:devel/py-pytz@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sphinx>0:textproc/py-sphinx@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist pytest
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/tests
 
 post-install:
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/rapidjson${PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX}.so
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-python-rapidjson/distinfo b/devel/py-python-rapidjson/distinfo
index 9c74762cc164..3d02abe6df36 100644
--- a/devel/py-python-rapidjson/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-python-rapidjson/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1703294962
-SHA256 (python-rapidjson-1.14.tar.gz) = 26806f0a658c34b48d2951d8d3f846ca9deb93a34e664ef436db632a188b6779
-SIZE (python-rapidjson-1.14.tar.gz) = 229577
+TIMESTAMP = 1709605768
+SHA256 (python-rapidjson-1.16.tar.gz) = 3c9330e9cfd9223cb473384754df9692c18d4ec446ec94ce9ba7dff01a610d05
+SIZE (python-rapidjson-1.16.tar.gz) = 230072