diff --git a/misc/py-langsmith/Makefile b/misc/py-langsmith/Makefile
index ad069b1f48d3..4ba20a730d7b 100644
--- a/misc/py-langsmith/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-langsmith/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,40 @@
 PORTNAME=	langsmith
-DISTVERSION=	0.7.34
+DISTVERSION=	0.8.8
 CATEGORIES=	misc python # machine-learning
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Library to connect to the LangSmith LLM Tracing & Evaluation Platform
 WWW=		https://smith.langchain.com/ \
 		https://github.com/langchain-ai/langsmith-sdk/tree/main/python
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatchling>0:devel/py-hatchling@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}httpx>=0.23.0:www/py-httpx@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}orjson>=3.9.14:devel/py-orjson@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=23.2:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pydantic2>=2:devel/py-pydantic2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests-toolbelt>=1.0.0:www/py-requests-toolbelt@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.0.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}uuid-utils>=0.12.0:misc/py-uuid-utils@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}websockets>=15.0:devel/py-websockets@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}xxhash>=3.0.0:devel/py-xxhash@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}zstandard>=0.23.0:archivers/py-zstandard@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}opentelemetry-api>=1.30.0:devel/py-opentelemetry-api@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http>=1.30.0:devel/py-opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}opentelemetry-sdk>=1.30.0:devel/py-opentelemetry-sdk@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}vcrpy>0:devel/py-vcrpy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
+
+# tests as of 0.8.8: 187 failed, 799 passed, 105 skipped, 3 xfailed, 66 warnings, 17 errors in 608.54s (0:10:08), many or all faiures are due to missing API keys
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-langsmith/distinfo b/misc/py-langsmith/distinfo
index 6379e7c19b1b..7d656de450ae 100644
--- a/misc/py-langsmith/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-langsmith/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1777006520
-SHA256 (langsmith-0.7.34.tar.gz) = 1b1fd637e129ae41d5fc8eebf23483816cd1251d61cffb21ce5203858561e70c
-SIZE (langsmith-0.7.34.tar.gz) = 4390970
+TIMESTAMP = 1780496808
+SHA256 (langsmith-0.8.8.tar.gz) = 9d00e54f54d833c1914003527ff03ad0364741034330da72f0adbeaba852b6cf
+SIZE (langsmith-0.8.8.tar.gz) = 4468035