diff --git a/devel/py-rq/Makefile b/devel/py-rq/Makefile
index 7c25270aa186..6bb2dd1a569b 100644
--- a/devel/py-rq/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-rq/Makefile
@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	rq
-PORTVERSION=	1.15.1
+PORTVERSION=	1.16.2
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	skreuzer@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple library for creating background jobs, and processing them
 WWW=		https://python-rq.org
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_DEPENDS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatchling>0:devel/py-hatchling@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}click>=5.0.0:devel/py-click@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}redis>=4.0.0:databases/py-redis@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-rq/distinfo b/devel/py-rq/distinfo
index 4790d46f20e5..ee81cb9380c0 100644
--- a/devel/py-rq/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-rq/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1701605893
-SHA256 (rq-1.15.1.tar.gz) = 1f49f4ac1a084044bb8e95b3f305c0bf17e55618b08c18e0b60c080f12d6f008
-SIZE (rq-1.15.1.tar.gz) = 81462
+TIMESTAMP = 1716816474
+SHA256 (rq-1.16.2.tar.gz) = 5c5b9ad5fbaf792b8fada25cc7627f4d206a9a4455aced371d4f501cc3f13b34
+SIZE (rq-1.16.2.tar.gz) = 629881