diff --git a/devel/py-zarr/Makefile b/devel/py-zarr/Makefile
index 1e231470fd84..9e2b6af9d24a 100644
--- a/devel/py-zarr/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-zarr/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	zarr
-DISTVERSION=	2.16.0
+DISTVERSION=	2.16.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Implementation of chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays for Python
 WWW=		https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm>0:devel/py-setuptools_scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}asciitree>0:graphics/py-asciitree@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fasteners>0:devel/py-fasteners@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numcodecs>=0.10.0:misc/py-numcodecs@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYNUMPY}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-zarr/distinfo b/devel/py-zarr/distinfo
index 4c5d860902a2..78c0069cb959 100644
--- a/devel/py-zarr/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-zarr/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1689920448
-SHA256 (zarr-2.16.0.tar.gz) = 84e36b695bda0ecea52af9861271984cb22a5c864679907b7b9ba3f79b684f7e
-SIZE (zarr-2.16.0.tar.gz) = 3596961
+TIMESTAMP = 1692637330
+SHA256 (zarr-2.16.1.tar.gz) = 4276cf4b4a653431042cd53ff2282bc4d292a6842411e88529964504fb073286
+SIZE (zarr-2.16.1.tar.gz) = 3597771
diff --git a/devel/py-zarr/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-zarr/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index bd1f3aeaa961..2237e9a0f1d7 100644
--- a/devel/py-zarr/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/devel/py-zarr/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2023-02-26 08:32:53 UTC
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2023-08-18 14:28:45 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
  [build-system]
--requires = ["setuptools>=64.0.0", "setuptools-scm"]
-+requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm"]
+-requires = ["setuptools>=64.0.0", "setuptools-scm>1.5.4"]
++requires = ["setuptools>0", "setuptools-scm>1.5.4"]
  build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"