diff --git a/devel/py-watchfiles/Makefile b/devel/py-watchfiles/Makefile
index b7025852d960..21ba083b1063 100644
--- a/devel/py-watchfiles/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-watchfiles/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	watchfiles
-PORTVERSION=	0.15.0
+PORTVERSION=	0.16.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple, modern and high performance file watching and code reload in python
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}anyio>=3.0.0<4:devel/py-anyio@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		dos2unix python:3.7+
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 post-patch:
 	@${RM} ${WRKSRC}/pyproject.toml
 	@${SED} -e 's|%%PORTVERSION%%|${PORTVERSION}|' ${FILESDIR}/setup.py > ${WRKSRC}/setup.py
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-watchfiles/distinfo b/devel/py-watchfiles/distinfo
index aa4108f65fdb..3e9109992a67 100644
--- a/devel/py-watchfiles/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-watchfiles/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1655561158
-SHA256 (watchfiles-0.15.0.tar.gz) = cab62510f990d195986302aa6a48ed636d685b099927049120d520c96069fa49
-SIZE (watchfiles-0.15.0.tar.gz) = 36227
+TIMESTAMP = 1660576820
+SHA256 (watchfiles-0.16.1.tar.gz) = aed7575e24434c8fec2f2bbb0cecb1521ea1240234d9108db7915a3424d92394
+SIZE (watchfiles-0.16.1.tar.gz) = 37818