diff --git a/lang/cython-devel/Makefile b/lang/cython-devel/Makefile
index f8df0265ac0f..44bfa65a1f81 100644
--- a/lang/cython-devel/Makefile
+++ b/lang/cython-devel/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	cython
-DISTVERSION=	3.0.0a11
+DISTVERSION=	3.0.0b1
 CATEGORIES=	lang python
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 PKGNAMESUFFIX=	-devel
 
 MAINTAINER=	amdmi3@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Compiler for Writing C Extensions for the Python Language
 WWW=		https://cython.org/
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 USES=		compiler:c11 python
 USE_PYTHON=	allflavors autoplist concurrent distutils
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 
 CONFLICTS_INSTALL=	py*-cython # bin/cygdb bin/cygdb-3.8 bin/cython bin/cython-3.8 bin/cythonize bin/cythonize-3.8
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}/Cython -name '*.so' -exec ${STRIP_CMD} {} +
 
+do-test:
+	@cd ${WRKSRC} && ${PYTHON_CMD} runtests.py -vv
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/lang/cython-devel/distinfo b/lang/cython-devel/distinfo
index d916f620a79e..79886660080e 100644
--- a/lang/cython-devel/distinfo
+++ b/lang/cython-devel/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1659362708
-SHA256 (cython-cython-3.0.0a11_GH0.tar.gz) = 08dbdb6aa003f03e65879de8f899f87c8c718cd874a31ae9c29f8726da2f5ab0
-SIZE (cython-cython-3.0.0a11_GH0.tar.gz) = 2527660
+TIMESTAMP = 1679684610
+SHA256 (cython-cython-3.0.0b1_GH0.tar.gz) = bca121dbe96c88de9f2369d9d9231dd6b481cca486514421ed8252b4390eab5b
+SIZE (cython-cython-3.0.0b1_GH0.tar.gz) = 2659132