diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
index fcb779b1ee8b..dc8dd3031fed 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,41 +1,41 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.4.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.2
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM)
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/../LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	cmake:devel/cmake
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libdmlc.so:devel/dmlc-core \
 		libxgboost.so:misc/xgboost
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scipy>0:science/py-scipy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest>0:devel/py-pytest@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 
 USES=		compiler:c11 python:3.5+ localbase:ldflags
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	dmlc
 
 WRKSRC_SUBDIR=	python-package
 
 PYDISTUTILS_INSTALLARGS=	--use-system-libxgboost # this is ignored so that setup.py has to be patched, see https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/6879
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 POST_PLIST=	fix-plist
 
 fix-plist: # https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/5705
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|.*libxgboost${PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX}.so$$||' ${TMPPLIST}
 
 do-test: # tests fail w/out CUDA: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/6881
 	@cd ${WRKSRC}/.. && ${PYTHON_CMD} -m pytest
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo b/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
index 44464a7c1344..84c698ba5e20 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1618948792
-SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 3464cb2463b25e8a6702129a2b3d1e270e28478369bd524d048d5c2422345a51
-SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1580682
-SHA256 (dmlc-rabit-f307ace_GH0.tar.gz) = de7592accfbef39bc147cd0df00fc4cfb7f12e184d414d057437c0567a63c1d4
-SIZE (dmlc-rabit-f307ace_GH0.tar.gz) = 94142
+TIMESTAMP = 1629576397
+SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.4.2_GH0.tar.gz) = e251dae332ce6168f7c900ba8ca2e84c75c0e227ef51611d2badbdd451847dc3
+SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.4.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 1582010
diff --git a/misc/xgboost/Makefile b/misc/xgboost/Makefile
index 679748ac9c54..0952a6570754 100644
--- a/misc/xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,29 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.4.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.2
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM)
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libdmlc.so:devel/dmlc-core
 
-USES=		cmake compiler:c++11-lang localbase:ldflags
+USES=		cmake:testing compiler:c++11-lang localbase:ldflags
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	dmlc
 GH_TUPLE=	\
 		NVlabs:cub:af39ee2:NVlabs_cub/cub \
-		rapidsai:gputreeshap:3310a30:rapidsai_gputreeshap/gputreeshap
+		rapidsai:gputreeshap:5bba198:rapidsai_gputreeshap/gputreeshap
 
 LDFLAGS+=	${LOCALBASE}/lib/libdmlc.so -lexecinfo
 
+CMAKE_TESTING_ON=	GOOGLE_TEST
+
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		OPENMP
 
 OPENMP_CMAKE_BOOL=	USE_OPENMP
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/xgboost/distinfo b/misc/xgboost/distinfo
index 34a76aad17c8..faf68eede2b1 100644
--- a/misc/xgboost/distinfo
+++ b/misc/xgboost/distinfo
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1618948383
-SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 3464cb2463b25e8a6702129a2b3d1e270e28478369bd524d048d5c2422345a51
-SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1580682
-SHA256 (dmlc-dmlc-core-f00e3ec_GH0.tar.gz) = a5ec4fbad798e2c0b1ffa23857406249e599547cfce890fea86f7553f537344a
-SIZE (dmlc-dmlc-core-f00e3ec_GH0.tar.gz) = 256388
+TIMESTAMP = 1629576075
+SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.4.2_GH0.tar.gz) = e251dae332ce6168f7c900ba8ca2e84c75c0e227ef51611d2badbdd451847dc3
+SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.4.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 1582010
 SHA256 (NVlabs-cub-af39ee2_GH0.tar.gz) = 3444f1d0af16d3680bf5089c1a91e707769d946580b80f12463860366fb6884b
 SIZE (NVlabs-cub-af39ee2_GH0.tar.gz) = 413215
-SHA256 (rapidsai-gputreeshap-3310a30_GH0.tar.gz) = abfbf8e4bccb4bb2baf394018187b5d83b13f02c9f0b1326ff1b040596907dc3
-SIZE (rapidsai-gputreeshap-3310a30_GH0.tar.gz) = 27141
+SHA256 (rapidsai-gputreeshap-5bba198_GH0.tar.gz) = bad0d98eddff46e298f4c6be71b140ac8573b2d1740f109f3151097c56f18463
+SIZE (rapidsai-gputreeshap-5bba198_GH0.tar.gz) = 32468