diff --git a/devel/py-pyTooling/Makefile b/devel/py-pyTooling/Makefile
index 5c7520eca022..6870e1303503 100644
--- a/devel/py-pyTooling/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-pyTooling/Makefile
@@ -1,37 +1,37 @@
 PORTNAME=	pyTooling
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	5.0.0
+DISTVERSION=	6.1.0
 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} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0.38.1:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0.40.0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}anytree>=2.8.0:devel/py-anytree@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}coverage>0:devel/py-coverage@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}igraph>0:math/py-igraph@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}itertree>0:devel/py-itertree@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lxml>=4.9:devel/py-lxml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}mypy>=0.990:devel/py-mypy@${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
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest # tests fail to run, see https://github.com/pyTooling/pyTooling/issues/111
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/tests
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-pyTooling/distinfo b/devel/py-pyTooling/distinfo
index e200e91bf0f6..b56fbab24c3d 100644
--- a/devel/py-pyTooling/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-pyTooling/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1688366442
-SHA256 (pyTooling-pyTooling-v5.0.0_GH0.tar.gz) = f532560117529328c5ecec957249c27a423746c951d9405732b3a96108e464ff
-SIZE (pyTooling-pyTooling-v5.0.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 617950
+TIMESTAMP = 1713724545
+SHA256 (pyTooling-pyTooling-v6.1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 6dc6bf7e6bc66b405d3ad0b29d1a65293736ca7759bb2133dfce7a22879faea4
+SIZE (pyTooling-pyTooling-v6.1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 680766
diff --git a/devel/py-pyTooling/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-pyTooling/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47df41cc2360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-pyTooling/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2024-04-21 18:41:40 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ requires = [
+ [build-system]
+ requires = [
+-  "setuptools >= 69.0.0",
++  "setuptools",
+   "wheel >= 0.40.0",
+   "pyTooling ~= 6.0"
+ ]