diff --git a/devel/py-joblib/Makefile b/devel/py-joblib/Makefile
index 11160ba66bb4..478b36ce1543 100644
--- a/devel/py-joblib/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-joblib/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,29 @@
 PORTNAME=	joblib
-PORTVERSION=	1.5.1
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	1.6.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	skreuzer@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Lightweight pipelining using Python functions as jobs
 WWW=		https://joblib.readthedocs.io/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 #TEST_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}threadpoolctl>0:devel/py-threadpoolctl@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		cpe python
+USES=		cpe python:3.10+
 CPE_VENDOR=	joblib_project
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517 pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 PYTEST_IGNORED_TESTS=	test_disk_used	\
 			test_parallel_call_cached_function_defined_in_jupyter
 PYTEST_BROKEN_TESTS=	test_memmapping_on_large_enough_dev_shm
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-joblib/distinfo b/devel/py-joblib/distinfo
index af38c3d6b0c1..4321d3cacfa7 100644
--- a/devel/py-joblib/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-joblib/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1748736368
-SHA256 (joblib-1.5.1.tar.gz) = f4f86e351f39fe3d0d32a9f2c3d8af1ee4cec285aafcb27003dda5205576b444
-SIZE (joblib-1.5.1.tar.gz) = 330475
+TIMESTAMP = 1788747666
+SHA256 (joblib-1.6.0.tar.gz) = 2ccc96785b12046c08fd6d55839c12857831b54a3c1673ffadd2f04bfc4eda03
+SIZE (joblib-1.6.0.tar.gz) = 327903
diff --git a/devel/py-joblib/files/patch-joblib_externals_loky_backend_context.py b/devel/py-joblib/files/patch-joblib_externals_loky_backend_context.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5782ed4dd74c..000000000000
--- a/devel/py-joblib/files/patch-joblib_externals_loky_backend_context.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- joblib/externals/loky/backend/context.py.orig	2025-06-01 15:05:29 UTC
-+++ joblib/externals/loky/backend/context.py
-@@ -247,6 +247,14 @@ def _count_physical_cores():
-             cpu_count_physical = _count_physical_cores_win32()
-         elif sys.platform == "darwin":
-             cpu_count_physical = _count_physical_cores_darwin()
-+        elif sys.platform.startswith("freebsd"):
-+            cpu_info = subprocess.run(
-+                "sysctl -n kern.smp.cores".split(),
-+                capture_output=True,
-+                text=True,
-+            )
-+            cpu_info = cpu_info.stdout
-+            cpu_count_physical = int(cpu_info)
-         else:
-             raise NotImplementedError(f"unsupported platform: {sys.platform}")
- 
diff --git a/devel/py-joblib/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-joblib/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b221987b13b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-joblib/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
+ [build-system]
+-requires = ["setuptools>=77.0.3"]
++requires = ["setuptools>=63.1.0"]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+ 
+ [project]
+ name = "joblib"
+ authors = [{name = "Gael Varoquaux", email = "gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org"}]
+-license = "BSD-3-Clause"
+ description = "Lightweight pipelining with Python functions"
+ classifiers = [
+     "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+@@ -80,7 +79,6 @@
+ ]
+ platforms = ["any"]
+ include-package-data = false
+-license-files = ["LICENSE.txt"]
+ 
+ [tool.setuptools.package-data]
+ "joblib.test" = [