diff --git a/textproc/xml2rfc/Makefile b/textproc/xml2rfc/Makefile
index 0f4dc81aa6be..5ed1785a8c28 100644
--- a/textproc/xml2rfc/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/xml2rfc/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	xml2rfc
-PORTVERSION=	3.24.0
+PORTVERSION=	3.28.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	marcus@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Tool to create RFCs and related documents from XML
 WWW=		https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lxml5>=5.3.0:devel/py-lxml5@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.5.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}country>=22.3.5:devel/py-country@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}intervaltree>=3.1.0:devel/py-intervaltree@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google-i18n-address>=3.0.0:devel/py-google-i18n-address@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}configargparse>=1.2.3:devel/py-configargparse@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}Jinja2>=3.1.2:devel/py-Jinja2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=5.3.1:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wcwidth>=0.2.5:devel/py-wcwidth@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}platformdirs>=3.6.0:devel/py-platformdirs@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist concurrent optsuffix
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist concurrent optsuffix
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/xml2rfc/distinfo b/textproc/xml2rfc/distinfo
index 7a5999becff4..fe3d583c0502 100644
--- a/textproc/xml2rfc/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/xml2rfc/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1730195294
-SHA256 (xml2rfc-3.24.0.tar.gz) = db04c29ab45ef66e3ad780d2c68acfe0364e0de78d06932dfc9938e4286f422f
-SIZE (xml2rfc-3.24.0.tar.gz) = 2702101
+TIMESTAMP = 1741104129
+SHA256 (xml2rfc-3.28.0.tar.gz) = 8b3cd981f2da03693669dbf813b896f93acc0dc7964ae99ddf762d11199364c9
+SIZE (xml2rfc-3.28.0.tar.gz) = 423681