diff --git a/devel/py-distlib/Makefile b/devel/py-distlib/Makefile
index 49a97066c040..e2da61360154 100644
--- a/devel/py-distlib/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-distlib/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	distlib
-DISTVERSION=	0.4.2
+DISTVERSION=	0.4.3
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Low-level components of distutils2 and higher-level APIs
 WWW=		https://github.com/pypa/distlib
 
 LICENSE=	PSFL
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest # few tests fail intermittently, see https://github.com/pypa/distlib/issues/205
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_ENV=	PYTHONHASHSEED=0 # needed for tests to succeed
 
-# tests as of 0.4.2: 21 failed, 205 passed, 21 skipped
+# tests as of 0.4.3: 1 failed, 224 passed, 21 skipped in 20.50s
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-distlib/distinfo b/devel/py-distlib/distinfo
index 0b74f6eaa239..d36709507160 100644
--- a/devel/py-distlib/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-distlib/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1780987028
-SHA256 (distlib-0.4.2.tar.gz) = baeb401c90f27acd15c4861ae0847d1e731c27ac3dbf4210643ba61fa1e813db
-SIZE (distlib-0.4.2.tar.gz) = 614914
+TIMESTAMP = 1781406675
+SHA256 (distlib-0.4.3.tar.gz) = f152097224a0ae24be5a0f6bae1b9359af82133bce63f98a95f86cae1aede9ed
+SIZE (distlib-0.4.3.tar.gz) = 615141
diff --git a/devel/py-distlib/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-distlib/files/patch-pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d88fa5bf700..000000000000
--- a/devel/py-distlib/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
--- Relax setuptools version requirement
--- Upper limits on dependencies often break builds in the ports tree
-
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-06-03 06:40:03 UTC
-+++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ requires = [
- [build-system]
- requires = [
--    "setuptools >= 68,<75",
-+    "setuptools >= 63",
-     "wheel"
- ]
- build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'