diff --git a/devel/py-virtualenv/Makefile b/devel/py-virtualenv/Makefile
index 7baa62fa77ed..1e3d9b54aefb 100644
--- a/devel/py-virtualenv/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-virtualenv/Makefile
@@ -1,77 +1,93 @@
 PORTNAME=	virtualenv
-PORTVERSION=	20.17.0
+PORTVERSION=	20.18.0
 PORTREVISION=	0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	nivit@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Tool for creating isolated Python environments
 WWW=		https://virtualenv.pypa.io
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}distlib>=0.3.6:devel/py-distlib@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pip>=0:devel/py-pip@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm>=0:devel/py-setuptools_scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}distlib>=0.3.6:devel/py-distlib@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}distlib>=0.3.6:devel/py-distlib@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}filelock>=3.4.1:sysutils/py-filelock@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}platformdirs>=2.4:devel/py-platformdirs@${PY_FLAVOR}
-TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}coverage_enable_subprocess>=1.0:devel/py-coverage_enable_subprocess@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}covdefaults>=2.2.2:devel/py-covdefaults@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}coverage_enable_subprocess>=1.0:devel/py-coverage_enable_subprocess@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}flaky>=3.7.0:devel/py-flaky@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=21.3:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-env>=0.6.2:devel/py-pytest-env@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-freezegun>=0.4.2:devel/py-pytest-freezegun@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-mock>0:devel/py-pytest-mock@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-randomly>=3.10.3:devel/py-pytest-randomly@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-timeout>=2.1.0:devel/py-pytest-timeout@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		cpe python:3.6+
+USES=		cpe python:3.7+
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	pypa
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils pytest
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517 pytest
+
+PEP517_BUILD_DEPEND=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatch-vcs>=0.3:devel/py-hatch-vcs@${PY_FLAVOR}
+PEP517_BUILD_CMD=	${PYTHON_CMD} -m hatchling build --target wheel
+PEP517_INSTALL_DEPEND=	${PKGNAMEPREFIX}pip>=22.3.1:devel/py-pip@${PY_FLAVOR}
+PEP517_INSTALL_CMD=	${PYTHON_CMD} -m pip install --no-color --compile \
+			--no-deps --no-warn-script-location --prefix ${PREFIX} \
+			--progress-bar off --root ${STAGEDIR} \
+			--root-user-action ignore --verbose \
+			${BUILD_WRKSRC}/dist/${PORTNAME:C/[-_]+/_/g}-${PORTVERSION}-*.whl
 
 # Fix the LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version (build target)
 MAKE_ENV=	SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION="${PORTVERSION}"
+
 .if make(test)
 TEST_DEPENDS+=	python2:lang/python2
 TEST_ENV=	PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 \
 		PYTHONPATH="${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}"
 QA_ENV=		IGNORE_QA_depends_blacklist=yes # we also need lang/python2 to pass some tests
 .endif
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 
 DOCS_BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}click-default-group>0:devel/py-click-default-group@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 			${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}filelock>0:sysutils/py-filelock@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+			${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}furo>=2022.12.7:textproc/py-furo@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 			${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}platformdirs>0:devel/py-platformdirs@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 			${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}proselint>0:devel/py-proselint@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 			${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sphinx-argparse>0:textproc/py-sphinx-argparse@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 			${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sphinx>=1.8.0,1:textproc/py-sphinx@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-			${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sphinx_rtd_theme>0:textproc/py-sphinx_rtd_theme@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 			${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}towncrier>=22.8.0:textproc/py-towncrier@${PY_FLAVOR}
 DOCS_BINARY_ALIAS=	towncrier=towncrier-${PYTHON_VER}
 DOCS_PLIST_FILES=	man/man1/virtualenv.1.gz
 DOCS_PORTDOCS=		* .buildinfo
-# Note: we install a temporary egg_info so that virtualenv can discover its stuff,
-# while sphinx builds docs. Otherwise an Exception occurs:
+
+# Fix the Exception:
 #
 # File "/build/lib/virtualenv/run/plugin/discovery.py", line 20, in get_discover
 #    default=next(iter(choices)),
 # StopIteration
 #
-DOCS_VARS=		PYDISTUTILS_BUILD_TARGET+="install_egg_info --install-dir build/lib"
+# Apparently it doesn't work setting PYTHONPATH environment variable...
+VIRTUALENV_WHEEL=	${WRKSRC}/dist/${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}-py${PYTHON_MAJOR_VER}-none-any.whl
+
+post-patch:
+	@${SED} -i.bak -e 's,%%VIRTUALENV_WHEEL%%,${VIRTUALENV_WHEEL},1' ${WRKSRC}/docs/conf.py
+
+post-install:
+	${PYTHON_CMD} ${PYTHON_LIBDIR}/compileall.py -s ${STAGEDIR} -f ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	${LOCALBASE}/bin/sphinx-build-${PYTHON_VER} -d ${WRKDIR} -b html -n ${WRKSRC}/docs ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	${LOCALBASE}/bin/sphinx-build-${PYTHON_VER} -d ${WRKDIR} -b man -n ${WRKSRC}/docs ${STAGEDIR}${MANPREFIX}/man/man1
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if "${PYTHON_VER}" == "3.7"
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}importlib-metadata>=4.8.1:devel/py-importlib-metadata@${PY_FLAVOR}
+
 .endif
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-virtualenv/distinfo b/devel/py-virtualenv/distinfo
index 485de442d080..13167d1f9546 100644
--- a/devel/py-virtualenv/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-virtualenv/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1669666632
-SHA256 (pypa-virtualenv-20.17.0_GH0.tar.gz) = a5a67b65ffc21677ddb9f8fae0a38f23e4f34c082844f465f27433cb228572f4
-SIZE (pypa-virtualenv-20.17.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 12254220
+TIMESTAMP = 1675762684
+SHA256 (pypa-virtualenv-20.18.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 17fada8694de7adc3fa7dfc1a6bcb400403b9b129891fee116d8f3ebb5c0ba7c
+SIZE (pypa-virtualenv-20.18.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 12108429
diff --git a/devel/py-virtualenv/files/patch-docs_conf.py b/devel/py-virtualenv/files/patch-docs_conf.py
index 9d0dd6d85969..a29883882f74 100644
--- a/devel/py-virtualenv/files/patch-docs_conf.py
+++ b/devel/py-virtualenv/files/patch-docs_conf.py
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
---- docs/conf.py.orig	2022-11-12 21:38:58 UTC
+--- docs/conf.py.orig	2023-02-06 17:33:30 UTC
 +++ docs/conf.py
-@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-+import os
- import subprocess
- import sys
+@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import sys
  from datetime import date, datetime
  from pathlib import Path
  
- import sphinx_rtd_theme
++sys.path.insert(0, '%%VIRTUALENV_WHEEL%%')
 +
-+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../build/lib'))
- 
  from virtualenv.version import __version__
  
+ company = "PyPA"
+@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ extlinks = {
+ def setup(app):
+     here = Path(__file__).parent
+     root, exe = here.parent, Path(sys.executable)
+-    towncrier = exe.with_name(f"towncrier{exe.suffix}")
++    towncrier = exe.with_name(f"towncrier")
+     cmd = [str(towncrier), "build", "--draft", "--version", "NEXT"]
+     new = subprocess.check_output(cmd, cwd=root, text=True, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+     (root / "docs" / "_draft.rst").write_text("" if "No significant changes" in new else new)
diff --git a/devel/py-virtualenv/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-virtualenv/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bed8e63cfe23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-virtualenv/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2023-02-06 17:33:30 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -100,6 +100,13 @@ pip = "virtualenv.seed.embed.pip_invoke:PipInvoke"
+ 
+ [tool.hatch]
+ build.hooks.vcs.version-file = "src/virtualenv/version.py"
++build.hooks.vcs.template = """\
++# coding: utf-8
++# file generated by setuptools_scm
++# don't change, don't track in version control
++__version__ = {version!r}
++__version_tuple__ = {version_tuple!r}
++"""
+ build.targets.sdist.include = ["/src", "/tests"]
+ version.source = "vcs"
+