diff --git a/devel/py-boltons/Makefile b/devel/py-boltons/Makefile
index e7c0c0ad0402..361b0f64351e 100644
--- a/devel/py-boltons/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-boltons/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,23 @@
 PORTNAME=	boltons
-PORTVERSION=	24.1.0
+PORTVERSION=	25.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Functionality that should be in the standard library
 WWW=		https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ \
 		https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}flit-core>=3.2<4:devel/py-flit-core@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sqlite3>=0:databases/py-sqlite3@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-boltons/distinfo b/devel/py-boltons/distinfo
index cc75a0f61ef4..1dc4f2db8677 100644
--- a/devel/py-boltons/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-boltons/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1730641026
-SHA256 (boltons-24.1.0.tar.gz) = 4a49b7d57ee055b83a458c8682a2a6f199d263a8aa517098bda9bab813554b87
-SIZE (boltons-24.1.0.tar.gz) = 240916
+TIMESTAMP = 1738982816
+SHA256 (boltons-25.0.0.tar.gz) = e110fbdc30b7b9868cb604e3f71d4722dd8f4dcb4a5ddd06028ba8f1ab0b5ace
+SIZE (boltons-25.0.0.tar.gz) = 246294