diff --git a/devel/py-ipykernel/Makefile b/devel/py-ipykernel/Makefile
index 542ff0bb249e..2277828f38b7 100644
--- a/devel/py-ipykernel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-ipykernel/Makefile
@@ -1,29 +1,30 @@
 # Created by: Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	ipykernel
-PORTVERSION=	6.9.2
+PORTVERSION=	6.12.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	IPython Kernel for Jupyter
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING.md
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}debugpy>=1.0.0<2.0:devel/py-debugpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}debugpy>=1.0:devel/py-debugpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ipython>=7.23.1:devel/ipython@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}jupyter-client>=0<8.0:devel/py-jupyter-client@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}matplotlib-inline>=0.1.0<0.2.0:math/py-matplotlib-inline@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}jupyter-client>=6.1.12:devel/py-jupyter-client@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}matplotlib-inline>=0.1:math/py-matplotlib-inline@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}nest-asyncio>=0:devel/py-nest-asyncio@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}psutil>=0:sysutils/py-psutil@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tornado>=4.2<7.0:www/py-tornado@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}traitlets>=5.1.0<6.0:devel/py-traitlets@${PY_FLAVOR}
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tornado>=6.1:www/py-tornado@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}traitlets>=5.1.0:devel/py-traitlets@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python:3.7+
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-ipykernel/distinfo b/devel/py-ipykernel/distinfo
index 84737f02a031..81bcd90f9e51 100644
--- a/devel/py-ipykernel/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-ipykernel/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1648248920
-SHA256 (ipykernel-6.9.2.tar.gz) = 4c3cc8cb359f2ead70c30f5504971c0d285e2c1c699d2ce9af0216fe9c9fb17c
-SIZE (ipykernel-6.9.2.tar.gz) = 128759
+TIMESTAMP = 1649423786
+SHA256 (ipykernel-6.12.1.tar.gz) = 0868f5561729ade444011f8ca7d3502dc9f27f7f44e20f1d5fee7e1f2b7183a1
+SIZE (ipykernel-6.12.1.tar.gz) = 129979