diff --git a/math/py-py-find-1st/Makefile b/math/py-py-find-1st/Makefile
index 1db2bc6ad6e0..28c7d3145aae 100644
--- a/math/py-py-find-1st/Makefile
+++ b/math/py-py-find-1st/Makefile
@@ -1,28 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	py-find-1st
-DISTVERSION=	1.1.6
-PORTREVISION=	2
+DISTVERSION=	1.1.9
 CATEGORIES=	math
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/g}-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Numpy extension module for efficient search in numpy arrays
 WWW=		https://github.com/roebel/py_find_1st
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest # tests are broken, see https://github.com/roebel/py_find_1st/issues/13
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest # tests as of 1.1.9 are still broken: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'utf1st_inst_dir', see https://github.com/roebel/py_find_1st/issues/13
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
 post-install:
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/utils_find_1st/find_1st${PYTHON_TAG}.so
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/math/py-py-find-1st/distinfo b/math/py-py-find-1st/distinfo
index 64d9dde46825..be8825c2f627 100644
--- a/math/py-py-find-1st/distinfo
+++ b/math/py-py-find-1st/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1698566699
-SHA256 (py_find_1st-1.1.6.tar.gz) = 8a7bcbc6a4144a58cfc0e5f4e2affd983e686cef54b0e81e29c0be15248f5e1f
-SIZE (py_find_1st-1.1.6.tar.gz) = 8558
+TIMESTAMP = 1781621385
+SHA256 (py_find_1st-1.1.9.tar.gz) = 0bbb80b40c472804cdc4b68e0a3b91c964dc06677df094357b6ac0c990eb5df3
+SIZE (py_find_1st-1.1.9.tar.gz) = 22497
diff --git a/math/py-py-find-1st/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/math/py-py-find-1st/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index 8949cd0b2e61..523a5caec55b 100644
--- a/math/py-py-find-1st/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/math/py-py-find-1st/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,31 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2023-02-13 08:53:21 UTC
+-- Fix build: pyproject.toml is broken in the upstream release
+--
+-- The upstream pyproject.toml has a syntax error in the [build-system] section
+-- where two 'requires' lists seem to have been merged incorrectly.
+-- This patch fixes the syntax and simplifies the dependencies.
+
+--- pyproject.toml.orig 2026-04-14 10:28:44 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
+@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
  [build-system]
  # Minimum requirements for the build system to execute.
--requires = ["setuptools", "oldest-supported-numpy", "wheel"]  # PEP 508 specifications.
-+requires = ["setuptools", "numpy", "wheel"]  # PEP 508 specifications.
+-requires = [
+-         "setuptools >= 75.0",
+-         "oldest-supported-numpy; python_version<='3.8'",
+-         "numpy>=2.0,<3; python_version>'3.8'",
+-         "wheel"
+-   ]  # PEP 508 specifications.
++requires = ["setuptools", "numpy", "wheel"]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+ 
+ [project]
+@@ -27,8 +22,7 @@ dependencies = [
+ ]
+ license = { text = "GPL" }
+ dependencies = [
+-    "numpy>=1.13.0,<2.0; python_version<='3.8'",
+-    "numpy>=1.19.3,<3; python_version>'3.8'",
++    "numpy>=1.16",
+ ]
+ keywords = ["numpy","extension","find"]
+