diff --git a/devel/py-traitlets/Makefile b/devel/py-traitlets/Makefile
index 4973b8fa49eb..48a71ea200ea 100644
--- a/devel/py-traitlets/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-traitlets/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,29 @@
 PORTNAME=	traitlets
-DISTVERSION=	5.4.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	5.8.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Configuration system for Python applications
 WWW=		https://github.com/ipython/traitlets
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING.md
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ipython_genutils>0:devel/py-ipython_genutils@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest>0:devel/py-pytest@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python:3.7+
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 # upstream stopped providing setup.py
 post-patch:
 	@${ECHO_CMD} 'import setuptools; setuptools.setup()' > ${WRKSRC}/setup.py
 
 post-install:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -i '' -e 's|Version: .*|Version: ${DISTVERSION}|' ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}/traitlets-*/PKG-INFO
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-traitlets/distinfo b/devel/py-traitlets/distinfo
index 356efaeb5ade..a7a65cafe8dc 100644
--- a/devel/py-traitlets/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-traitlets/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1665767514
-SHA256 (traitlets-5.4.0.tar.gz) = 3f2c4e435e271592fe4390f1746ea56836e3a080f84e7833f0f801d9613fec39
-SIZE (traitlets-5.4.0.tar.gz) = 134340
+TIMESTAMP = 1671584560
+SHA256 (traitlets-5.8.0.tar.gz) = 6cc57d6dc28c85d5365961726ffd19b538739347749e13ebe34e03323a0e8f84
+SIZE (traitlets-5.8.0.tar.gz) = 149460
diff --git a/devel/py-traitlets/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-traitlets/files/patch-pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index d6cf595f4e41..000000000000
--- a/devel/py-traitlets/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2022-10-14 17:21:32 UTC
-+++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ classifiers = [
- ]
- urls = {Homepage = "https://github.com/ipython/traitlets"}
- requires-python = ">=3.7"
--dynamic = ["description", "version"]
-+dynamic = ["version"]
- 
- [project.optional-dependencies]
- test = ["pytest", "pre-commit"]