diff --git a/net-p2p/pulsar-client-cpp/Makefile b/net-p2p/pulsar-client-cpp/Makefile
index 4ec2acb0e76d..a71c4af2e805 100644
--- a/net-p2p/pulsar-client-cpp/Makefile
+++ b/net-p2p/pulsar-client-cpp/Makefile
@@ -1,34 +1,35 @@
 PORTNAME=	pulsar-client-cpp # this port requres instruction sets crc32, pclmul above the default sse2
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	3.6.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	3.7.0
 CATEGORIES=	net-p2p
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Apache Pulsar C++ client library
-WWW=		https://pulsar.apache.org/
+WWW=		https://pulsar.apache.org/ \
+		https://github.com/apache/pulsar-client-cpp
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=	i386 amd64 # due to requrement of instruction sets crc32, pclmul
 BROKEN_i386=	compilation fails due to overflow, see https://github.com/apache/pulsar-client-cpp/issues/449
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/include/boost/algorithm/string.hpp:devel/boost-libs
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
 		libprotobuf.so:devel/protobuf \
 		libsnappy.so:archivers/snappy \
 		libzstd.so:archivers/zstd
 
 USES=		cmake:testing ssl
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	apache
 
 CMAKE_OFF=	BUILD_TESTS
 CMAKE_ARGS=	-DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
 		-DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr
+CMAKE_TESTING_ON=	BUILD_TESTS # tests fail to compile, see https://github.com/apache/pulsar-client-cpp/issues/472
 
 CXXFLAGS+=	-mcrc32 -mpclmul
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net-p2p/pulsar-client-cpp/distinfo b/net-p2p/pulsar-client-cpp/distinfo
index 31c67f8dfbc5..3a3e4dec1501 100644
--- a/net-p2p/pulsar-client-cpp/distinfo
+++ b/net-p2p/pulsar-client-cpp/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1728006942
-SHA256 (apache-pulsar-client-cpp-v3.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 321e288e60b340155d9a9ad8eb823738047f5055a71a8a345c93ddbe3d023741
-SIZE (apache-pulsar-client-cpp-v3.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 1599305
+TIMESTAMP = 1736572558
+SHA256 (apache-pulsar-client-cpp-v3.7.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 33d6ea82e1f03a2e77f85d3b6ee8e3ac37bfd760ea450537ec2e59ef122c4671
+SIZE (apache-pulsar-client-cpp-v3.7.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 1604627