diff --git a/databases/py-asyncpg/Makefile b/databases/py-asyncpg/Makefile
index 9864a90b305d..8c3e0ef7b83f 100644
--- a/databases/py-asyncpg/Makefile
+++ b/databases/py-asyncpg/Makefile
@@ -1,34 +1,33 @@
 PORTNAME=	asyncpg
-PORTVERSION=	0.30.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	0.31.0
 CATEGORIES=	databases python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	farrokhi@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	High performance PostgreSQL Client Library for Python/asyncio
 WWW=		https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-USES=		cpe pgsql:11+ python
+USES=		cpe pgsql:11+ python:3.9+
 CPE_VENDOR=	magic
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython pep517
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 PORTDOCS=	PKG-INFO README.rst
 
 post-extract:
 	@${RM} ${WRKSRC}/asyncpg/pgproto/*.c
 	@${RM} ${WRKSRC}/asyncpg/protocol/*.c
 
 post-install:
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}/asyncpg/protocol/protocol*.so
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}/asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto*.so
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}/
 	cd ${WRKSRC}/ && ${INSTALL_DATA} ${PORTDOCS} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}/
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/databases/py-asyncpg/distinfo b/databases/py-asyncpg/distinfo
index aa101f9d1dd7..ecdaca1e6041 100644
--- a/databases/py-asyncpg/distinfo
+++ b/databases/py-asyncpg/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1729426736
-SHA256 (asyncpg-0.30.0.tar.gz) = c551e9928ab6707602f44811817f82ba3c446e018bfe1d3abecc8ba5f3eac851
-SIZE (asyncpg-0.30.0.tar.gz) = 957746
+TIMESTAMP = 1780403132
+SHA256 (asyncpg-0.31.0.tar.gz) = c989386c83940bfbd787180f2b1519415e2d3d6277a70d9d0f0145ac73500735
+SIZE (asyncpg-0.31.0.tar.gz) = 993667
diff --git a/databases/py-asyncpg/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/databases/py-asyncpg/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..096a9ce553fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/py-asyncpg/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-06-02 13:15:10 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ readme = "README.rst"
+ authors = [{name = "MagicStack Inc", email = "hello@magic.io"}]
+ requires-python = '>=3.9.0'
+ readme = "README.rst"
+-license = "Apache-2.0"
+-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
++license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }
+ dynamic = ["version"]
+ keywords = [
+     "database",
+@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ requires = [
+ 
+ [build-system]
+ requires = [
+-    "setuptools>=77.0.3",
++    "setuptools>=61",
+     "Cython(>=3.2.1,<4.0.0)"
+ ]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"