diff --git a/math/py-pyreadr/Makefile b/math/py-pyreadr/Makefile
index f085585156a4..6083a6876d3a 100644
--- a/math/py-pyreadr/Makefile
+++ b/math/py-pyreadr/Makefile
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 PORTNAME=	pyreadr
-PORTVERSION=	0.5.4
+PORTVERSION=	0.5.6
 CATEGORIES=	math python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Read/write R RData and Rds files into/from pandas data frames
 WWW=		https://github.com/ofajardo/pyreadr
 
 LICENSE=	AGPLv3+
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	librdata.so:math/librdata
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pandas>=1.2.0,1:math/py-pandas@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		localbase python
+USES=		iconv localbase python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython pep517
 
 post-patch:
 # Clean up bundled libraries
 	@${RM} -r ${WRKSRC}/pyreadr/libs/
 	@${RM} -r ${WRKSRC}/win_libs/
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} -name '*.so' -exec ${STRIP_CMD} {} +
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/math/py-pyreadr/distinfo b/math/py-pyreadr/distinfo
index ab497ade9698..f447ddb517ac 100644
--- a/math/py-pyreadr/distinfo
+++ b/math/py-pyreadr/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1764510982
-SHA256 (pyreadr-0.5.4.tar.gz) = 05b18cc830dceda3ef3d477bd8e50f072474e177f0cf67b6ad4fb3d7f3de11fd
-SIZE (pyreadr-0.5.4.tar.gz) = 1292809
+TIMESTAMP = 1777252766
+SHA256 (pyreadr-0.5.6.tar.gz) = ec10bef1798a4d9e91ff75ab69fbcd009a3fad2250c79f5377e19e787c949b8f
+SIZE (pyreadr-0.5.6.tar.gz) = 1300692