diff --git a/devel/py-update_checker/Makefile b/devel/py-update_checker/Makefile
index 4d0e4862c5c2..372e6ab77e56 100644
--- a/devel/py-update_checker/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-update_checker/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,32 @@
 PORTNAME=	update_checker
-PORTVERSION=	0.18.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python module that will check for package updates
 WWW=		https://github.com/bboe/update_checker
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.3.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}uv-build>=0.8.0:devel/py-uv-build@${PY_FLAVOR}
+#RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.3.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=	ASYNC
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	ASYNC
+
+ASYNC_DESC=	Asynchronous support
+
+ASYNC_RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}aiohttp>0:www/py-aiohttp@${PY_FLAVOR}
+
 do-test:
 	@cd ${WRKSRC} && ${PYTHON_CMD} ${PYDISTUTILS_SETUP} test
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-update_checker/distinfo b/devel/py-update_checker/distinfo
index 9ff1893a4994..9a4a15704e9c 100644
--- a/devel/py-update_checker/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-update_checker/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1647066569
-SHA256 (update_checker-0.18.0.tar.gz) = 6a2d45bb4ac585884a6b03f9eade9161cedd9e8111545141e9aa9058932acb13
-SIZE (update_checker-0.18.0.tar.gz) = 6699
+TIMESTAMP = 1781544608
+SHA256 (update_checker-1.0.0.tar.gz) = bfcac66414572a82a98ea8c8633bf1ce5d102750e3b93469b89b30aa845cd1d7
+SIZE (update_checker-1.0.0.tar.gz) = 9600