diff --git a/math/py-docplex/Makefile b/math/py-docplex/Makefile
index 61e7687619d8..fe1d198af704 100644
--- a/math/py-docplex/Makefile
+++ b/math/py-docplex/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
 PORTNAME=	docplex
-DISTVERSION=	2.23.222
+DISTVERSION=	2.28.240
 CATEGORIES=	math python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	IBM Decision Optimization CPLEX Modeling for Python
 WWW=		https://www.ibm.com/cloud/decision-optimization-for-watson-studio
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}six>0:devel/py-six@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/math/py-docplex/distinfo b/math/py-docplex/distinfo
index 967a770d84b5..f109b03d7f70 100644
--- a/math/py-docplex/distinfo
+++ b/math/py-docplex/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1659990447
-SHA256 (docplex-2.23.222.tar.gz) = 7395e97c41939288e0ce4f804c7092cf3874e33784549104281a7e94f7d2fb1e
-SIZE (docplex-2.23.222.tar.gz) = 610785
+TIMESTAMP = 1733708005
+SHA256 (docplex-2.28.240.tar.gz) = c0de407e33f8709bb4cd91b6efeb96fd88bfecbdce2caec51afb79253bde6ff5
+SIZE (docplex-2.28.240.tar.gz) = 643369
diff --git a/math/py-docplex/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/math/py-docplex/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eddbfdfc534f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/math/py-docplex/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2024-12-09 01:56:45 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
+ [build-system]
+-requires = ["setuptools~=68.2.2"]
++requires = ["setuptools"]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"