diff --git a/devel/py-iniconfig/Makefile b/devel/py-iniconfig/Makefile
index 4dbb3efc42b1..7e8eedc9eb22 100644
--- a/devel/py-iniconfig/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-iniconfig/Makefile
@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	iniconfig
-DISTVERSION=	1.1.1
-PORTREVISION=	2
+DISTVERSION=	2.3.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	dbaio@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple parsing of ini files in Python
 WWW=		https://pypi.org/project/iniconfig/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=3:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=8:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517 pytest
+
+TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+# tests as of 2.3.0: 49 passed in 1.11s
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-iniconfig/distinfo b/devel/py-iniconfig/distinfo
index 3b905b194acd..62f4036196e7 100644
--- a/devel/py-iniconfig/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-iniconfig/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1610803536
-SHA256 (iniconfig-1.1.1.tar.gz) = bc3af051d7d14b2ee5ef9969666def0cd1a000e121eaea580d4a313df4b37f32
-SIZE (iniconfig-1.1.1.tar.gz) = 8104
+TIMESTAMP = 1777970223
+SHA256 (iniconfig-2.3.0.tar.gz) = c76315c77db068650d49c5b56314774a7804df16fee4402c1f19d6d15d8c4730
+SIZE (iniconfig-2.3.0.tar.gz) = 20503
diff --git a/devel/py-iniconfig/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-iniconfig/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7f0340106780
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-iniconfig/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-10-18 21:53:59 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ requires = [
+ [build-system]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+ requires = [
+-  "setuptools>=77",
++  "setuptools",
+   "setuptools-scm>=8",
+ ]
+ 
+@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ readme = "README.rst"
+ name = "iniconfig"
+ description = "brain-dead simple config-ini parsing"
+ readme = "README.rst"
+-license = "MIT"
+-license-files = [ "LICENSE" ]
+ authors = [
+   { name = "Ronny Pfannschmidt", email = "opensource@ronnypfannschmidt.de" },
+   { name = "Holger Krekel", email = "holger.krekel@gmail.com" },