diff --git a/devel/py-distributed/Makefile b/devel/py-distributed/Makefile
index c2eb129d4635..52776e5c5f1e 100644
--- a/devel/py-distributed/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-distributed/Makefile
@@ -1,39 +1,39 @@
 PORTNAME=	distributed
 PORTVERSION=	2025.12.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Distributed scheduler for Dask
 WWW=		https://distributed.dask.org/en/stable/ \
 		https://github.com/dask/distributed
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=62.6:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=0:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=9:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}click>=8.0:devel/py-click@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cloudpickle>=3.0.0:devel/py-cloudpickle@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}dask>=${PORTVERSION:R}<${PORTVERSION:R}.1_99:devel/py-dask@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}Jinja2>=2.10.3:devel/py-Jinja2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}locket>=1.0.0:devel/py-locket@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}msgpack>=1.0.2:devel/py-msgpack@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=20.0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}psutil>=5.8.0:sysutils/py-psutil@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=5.4.1:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sortedcontainers>=2.0.5:devel/py-sortedcontainers@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tblib>=1.6.0:devel/py-tblib@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}toolz>=0.12.0:devel/py-toolz@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tornado>=6.2.0:www/py-tornado@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}urllib3>=1.26.5,1:net/py-urllib3@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}zict>=3.0.0:devel/py-zict@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-distributed/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-distributed/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index 2e11b1dd93ec..cafdfd3836bc 100644
--- a/devel/py-distributed/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/devel/py-distributed/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 --- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-12-12 14:53:57 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
 @@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
  [build-system]
 -requires = ["setuptools>=80", "setuptools-scm>=9"]
-+requires = ["setuptools>=62.2", "setuptools-scm>=8"]
++requires = ["setuptools>=62.2", "setuptools-scm>=9"]
  build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
  
  [project]
  name = "distributed"
  description = "Distributed scheduler for Dask"
  maintainers = [{ name = "Matthew Rocklin", email = "mrocklin@gmail.com" }]
 -license = "BSD-3-Clause"
 -license-files = ["LICENSE.txt"]
 +license = {text = "BSD-3-Clause"}
  classifiers = [
      "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
      "Intended Audience :: Developers",