diff --git a/devel/py-ipywidgets/Makefile b/devel/py-ipywidgets/Makefile
index 8801d144f12f..b7996c75714c 100644
--- a/devel/py-ipywidgets/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-ipywidgets/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	ipywidgets
-PORTVERSION=	8.0.7
+PORTVERSION=	8.1.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	makc@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Interactive HTML widgets for Jupyter notebooks and the IPython kernel
 WWW=		https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ipykernel>=4.5.1:devel/py-ipykernel@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}comm>=0.1.3:devel/py-comm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ipython>=6.1.0:devel/ipython@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}nbformat>=4.2.0:devel/py-nbformat@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}traitlets>=4.3.1:devel/py-traitlets@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}widgetsnbextension>=4.0.0:devel/py-widgetsnbextension@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}jupyterlab-widgets>=3.0.0:devel/py-jupyterlab-widgets@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-ipywidgets/distinfo b/devel/py-ipywidgets/distinfo
index 3b2b8eca44f2..266f4f756c3e 100644
--- a/devel/py-ipywidgets/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-ipywidgets/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1688992930
-SHA256 (ipywidgets-8.0.7.tar.gz) = 50ace0a8886e9a0d68b980db82f94c25d55d21ff2340ed36f802dd9365e94acf
-SIZE (ipywidgets-8.0.7.tar.gz) = 115457
+TIMESTAMP = 1692019153
+SHA256 (ipywidgets-8.1.0.tar.gz) = ce97dd90525b3066fd00094690964e7eac14cf9b7745d35565b5eeac20cce687
+SIZE (ipywidgets-8.1.0.tar.gz) = 116121