diff --git a/www/py-pywikibot/Makefile b/www/py-pywikibot/Makefile
index e703f3b36e10..7783a92748fd 100644
--- a/www/py-pywikibot/Makefile
+++ b/www/py-pywikibot/Makefile
@@ -1,42 +1,43 @@
 PORTNAME=	pywikibot
-DISTVERSION=	8.6.0
+DISTVERSION=	9.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	www python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Wikipedia bot for Python
 WWW=		https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pywikibot
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}mwparserfromhell>=0.5.2:textproc/py-mwparserfromhell@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.21.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		dos2unix python
 DOS2UNIX_FILES=	setup.py
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	EVENTSTREAMS ISBN PYDOT GOOGLE IRC PILLOW MWOAUTH HTML
 EVENTSTREAMS_DESC=		Support for reading Server Sent Event streams
 ISBN_DESC=			Support for standard numbers and codes via stdnum package
 PYDOT_DESC=			Support for Graphviz via pydot module
 GOOGLE_DESC=			Support for Google search
 IRC_DESC=			Support for IRC
 PILLOW_DESC=			Support for image processing via pillow module
 MWOAUTH_DESC=			Support for MediaWiki OAuth handshake helper
 HTML_DESC=			Support for HTML/XML Parser for Python
 
 EVENTSTREAMS_RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sseclient>0:www/py-sseclient@${PY_FLAVOR}
 ISBN_RUN_DEPENDS=		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}stdnum>0:devel/py-stdnum@${PY_FLAVOR}
 PYDOT_RUN_DEPENDS=		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pydot>0:graphics/py-pydot@${PY_FLAVOR}
 GOOGLE_RUN_DEPENDS=		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google>0:www/py-google@${PY_FLAVOR}
 IRC_RUN_DEPENDS=		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}irc>0:irc/py-irc@${PY_FLAVOR}
 PILLOW_RUN_DEPENDS=		${PY_PILLOW}
 MWOAUTH_RUN_DEPENDS=		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}mwoauth>0:www/py-mwoauth@${PY_FLAVOR}
 HTML_RUN_DEPENDS=		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}beautifulsoup>0:www/py-beautifulsoup@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/www/py-pywikibot/distinfo b/www/py-pywikibot/distinfo
index 35739514c67c..1c0cb20d20e8 100644
--- a/www/py-pywikibot/distinfo
+++ b/www/py-pywikibot/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1703796569
-SHA256 (pywikibot-8.6.0.tar.gz) = 380454e6b6e53a74f4925d1afaed9b485325fa62f8d475eb3931a5b83a1e0015
-SIZE (pywikibot-8.6.0.tar.gz) = 607508
+TIMESTAMP = 1709965245
+SHA256 (pywikibot-9.0.0.tar.gz) = 82120dd4dd275a48c0eaa2a459faad928211e7b43cf6efe4110ad95e805e7317
+SIZE (pywikibot-9.0.0.tar.gz) = 612776
diff --git a/www/py-pywikibot/files/patch-setup.py b/www/py-pywikibot/files/patch-setup.py
index c5c1529ec580..3baf2bd20e11 100644
--- a/www/py-pywikibot/files/patch-setup.py
+++ b/www/py-pywikibot/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
---- setup.py.orig	2023-07-06 07:11:10 UTC
+--- setup.py.orig	2024-03-09 06:20:55 UTC
 +++ setup.py
-@@ -141,12 +141,12 @@ def get_validated_version() -> str:
-     from subprocess import PIPE, run
+@@ -160,12 +160,12 @@ def get_validated_version(name: str) -> str:  # pragma
+ 
+     from packaging.version import InvalidVersion, Version
  
-     from pkg_resources import parse_version, safe_version
 -    try:
 -        tags = run(['git', 'tag'], check=True, stdout=PIPE,
--                   universal_newlines=True).stdout.splitlines()
--    except Exception as e:  # pragma: no cover
+-                   text=True).stdout.splitlines()
+-    except Exception as e:
 -        print(e)
 -        sys.exit('Creating source distribution canceled.')
 +    #try:
 +    #    tags = run(['git', 'tag'], check=True, stdout=PIPE,
-+    #               universal_newlines=True).stdout.splitlines()
-+    #except Exception as e:  # pragma: no cover
++    #               text=True).stdout.splitlines()
++    #except Exception as e:
 +    #    print(e)
 +    #    sys.exit('Creating source distribution canceled.')
  
      last_tag = None
-     if tags:  # pragma: no cover
+     if tags: