diff --git a/lang/py-gherkin-official/Makefile b/lang/py-gherkin-official/Makefile
index df84154cf73b..e2070a7f4518 100644
--- a/lang/py-gherkin-official/Makefile
+++ b/lang/py-gherkin-official/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	gherkin-official
-DISTVERSION=	41.0.0
+DISTVERSION=	42.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	lang python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/}-${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Gherkin parser (official, by Cucumber team)
 WWW=		https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}uv-build>0:devel/py-uv-build@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}uv-build>0:devel/py-uv-build@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typing-extensions>=4:devel/py-typing-extensions@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+# tests as of 42.0.0: no test files are included in the PyPI sdist, so no tests are run
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/lang/py-gherkin-official/distinfo b/lang/py-gherkin-official/distinfo
index fbb5fb657fe7..fb233eed244f 100644
--- a/lang/py-gherkin-official/distinfo
+++ b/lang/py-gherkin-official/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1782228493
-SHA256 (gherkin_official-41.0.0.tar.gz) = 3e63a45c6daa43a25b159cdfd84c9703c2956c0736fe42119501a441c151b3db
-SIZE (gherkin_official-41.0.0.tar.gz) = 33992
+TIMESTAMP = 1785187625
+SHA256 (gherkin_official-42.0.0.tar.gz) = 2ae52b6d510bfa78b70bde7ceb1f2afd59e28fa36c7ddbdacc96db2b65f5978f
+SIZE (gherkin_official-42.0.0.tar.gz) = 35273