diff --git a/textproc/py-markdown/Makefile b/textproc/py-markdown/Makefile
index c045a6908623..2efa93c29095 100644
--- a/textproc/py-markdown/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-markdown/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	markdown
-PORTVERSION=	3.7
+PORTVERSION=	3.8
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python implementation of Markdown
 WWW=		https://python-markdown.github.io/ \
 		https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.md
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=61.2:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}coverage>=0:devel/py-coverage@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=0:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517 unittest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if ${PYTHON_REL} < 31000
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}importlib-metadata>=4.4:devel/py-importlib-metadata@${PY_FLAVOR}
 .endif
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-markdown/distinfo b/textproc/py-markdown/distinfo
index 8d4f23dca218..c45da4229d4d 100644
--- a/textproc/py-markdown/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-markdown/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1745178094
-SHA256 (markdown-3.7.tar.gz) = 2ae2471477cfd02dbbf038d5d9bc226d40def84b4fe2986e49b59b6b472bbed2
-SIZE (markdown-3.7.tar.gz) = 357086
+TIMESTAMP = 1745936220
+SHA256 (markdown-3.8.tar.gz) = 7df81e63f0df5c4b24b7d156eb81e4690595239b7d70937d0409f1b0de319c6f
+SIZE (markdown-3.8.tar.gz) = 360906
diff --git a/textproc/py-markdown/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/textproc/py-markdown/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index 2f9653e94718..1d0287e8bad0 100644
--- a/textproc/py-markdown/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/textproc/py-markdown/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,25 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2023-07-25 15:13:14 UTC
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-04-09 17:16:35 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ requires = ["setuptools>=61.2", "wheel"]
+@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
+ [build-system]
+ # Minimum requirements for the build system to execute.
+-requires = ["setuptools>=77.0"]
++requires = ["setuptools>=61.2"]
  build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
  
  [project]
 -name = 'Markdown'
 +name = 'markdown'
  dynamic = ['version']
  description = "Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown."
  readme = {file = 'README.md', content-type='text/markdown'}
+@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ maintainers = [
+     {name = 'Waylan Limberg', email = 'python.markdown@gmail.com'},
+     {name = 'Isaac Muse'}
+ ]
+-license = "BSD-3-Clause"
+-license-files = ["LICENSE.md"]
++license = {file = 'LICENSE.md'}
+ requires-python = '>=3.9'
+ dependencies = [
+     "importlib-metadata>=4.4;python_version<'3.10'"