diff --git a/textproc/py-emeraldtree/Makefile b/textproc/py-emeraldtree/Makefile
index a92b81a20063..21431ce85b91 100644
--- a/textproc/py-emeraldtree/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-emeraldtree/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
 PORTNAME=	emeraldtree
-DISTVERSION=	0.11.0
+PORTVERSION=	0.12.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
-MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
+MASTER_SITES=	PYPI \
+		https://github.com/moinwiki/emeraldtree/releases/download/${PORTVERSION}/
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
-MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT=	Light-weight toolkit for XML processing
+MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Light-weight XML object model for Python
 WWW=		https://github.com/moinwiki/emeraldtree
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>0:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
-TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tox>0:devel/py-tox@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=61:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=0:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517 pytest
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517 pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-emeraldtree/distinfo b/textproc/py-emeraldtree/distinfo
index 5d0a21c999d4..78e9931cb792 100644
--- a/textproc/py-emeraldtree/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-emeraldtree/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1726667839
-SHA256 (emeraldtree-0.11.0.tar.gz) = 10e9f826430aadb4afaa5cf830dd8298cae9b11c3023578fe8f0aca3b141a434
-SIZE (emeraldtree-0.11.0.tar.gz) = 23991
+TIMESTAMP = 1773152839
+SHA256 (emeraldtree-0.12.0.tar.gz) = 2f39bde9f9a6bb055642c3ff0aa9b2046bac7f0e9e425a183cff1fd930617897
+SIZE (emeraldtree-0.12.0.tar.gz) = 25085
diff --git a/textproc/py-emeraldtree/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/textproc/py-emeraldtree/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dcddeec6c2bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/py-emeraldtree/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-01-24 15:24:29 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ classifiers = [
+     "Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML",
+     "Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML",
+ ]
+-license = "HPND-sell-variant"  # aka "Python (MIT Style)" or "Elementtree" license
++license = { text = "HPND-sell-variant" } # aka "Python (MIT Style)" or "Elementtree" license
+ 
+ [project.urls]
+ "Homepage" = "https://github.com/moinwiki/emeraldtree"
+@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ where = ["src"]
+ where = ["src"]
+ 
+ [build-system]
+-requires = ["setuptools>=78.1.1", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]"]
++requires = ["setuptools>=61", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]"]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+ 
+ [tool.setuptools_scm]
diff --git a/textproc/py-emeraldtree/pkg-descr b/textproc/py-emeraldtree/pkg-descr
index 9ed5336bf2b6..720c5d5cbb31 100644
--- a/textproc/py-emeraldtree/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/py-emeraldtree/pkg-descr
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 EmeraldTree is a fork of ElementTree - the main differences are:
-
 - It has a slightly different API for handling of text: it uses unicode objects
   as children (not as "tail" attributes of the elements)
 - API cleanups, removing backward compatibility
 - Better unicode support
 - PolyglotWriter (for writing html5 that is also well-formed xml)
 - Other improvements / optimizations