diff --git a/devel/py-awscrt/Makefile b/devel/py-awscrt/Makefile
index d1a93fc29734..a51fd2d1a42a 100644
--- a/devel/py-awscrt/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-awscrt/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	awscrt
-PORTVERSION=	0.16.19
+PORTVERSION=	0.16.26
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Common runtime for AWS Python projects
 WWW=		https://github.com/awslabs/aws-crt-python
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	cmake:devel/cmake-core
 
 USES=		python ssl
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
 
 MAKE_ENV=	AWS_CRT_BUILD_USE_SYSTEM_LIBCRYPTO=1
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} -name '*.so' -exec ${STRIP_CMD} {} +
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-awscrt/distinfo b/devel/py-awscrt/distinfo
index 9935e9f7b124..3711d994dfda 100644
--- a/devel/py-awscrt/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-awscrt/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1685792224
-SHA256 (awscrt-0.16.19.tar.gz) = f514febfd9cc2b7afa3d3906cf786189a34837e321cd1fb719fbef00a78f2d65
-SIZE (awscrt-0.16.19.tar.gz) = 28488666
+TIMESTAMP = 1692211613
+SHA256 (awscrt-0.16.26.tar.gz) = 1cc8cfa42cd16cb54d8b75417fec0fb038f7318c490209290bdb6c42ad3c2dff
+SIZE (awscrt-0.16.26.tar.gz) = 31262472
diff --git a/devel/py-awscrt/files/patch-setup.py b/devel/py-awscrt/files/patch-setup.py
index 9a9dd25ebe72..765189d8e768 100644
--- a/devel/py-awscrt/files/patch-setup.py
+++ b/devel/py-awscrt/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -1,11 +1,44 @@
---- setup.py.orig	2022-11-09 18:39:08 UTC
+--- setup.py.orig	2023-07-19 00:27:11 UTC
 +++ setup.py
-@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ def awscrt_ext():
+@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import shutil
+ import subprocess
+ import sys
+ import sysconfig
+-from wheel.bdist_wheel import bdist_wheel
+ 
+ 
+ def is_64bit():
+@@ -283,16 +282,6 @@ class awscrt_build_ext(setuptools.command.build_ext.bu
+         super().run()
+ 
+ 
+-class bdist_wheel_abi3(bdist_wheel):
+-    def get_tag(self):
+-        python, abi, plat = super().get_tag()
+-        if python.startswith("cp") and sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
+-            # on CPython, our wheels are abi3 and compatible back to 3.11
+-            return "cp311", "abi3", plat
+-
+-        return python, abi, plat
+-
+-
+ def awscrt_ext():
+     # fetch the CFLAGS/LDFLAGS from env
+     extra_compile_args = os.environ.get('CFLAGS', '').split()
+@@ -360,7 +349,7 @@ def awscrt_ext():
              # a proper MacOS Universal2 binary. The linker warns us about this,
              # but WHATEVER. Building everything twice (x86_64 and arm64) takes too long.
              if not is_macos_universal2():
 -                extra_link_args += ['-Wl,-fatal_warnings']
 +                extra_link_args += ['-Wl,-fatal-warnings']
  
-     return setuptools.Extension(
-         '_awscrt',
+     if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
+         define_macros.append(('Py_LIMITED_API', '0x030B0000'))
+@@ -410,6 +399,6 @@ setuptools.setup(
+     ],
+     python_requires='>=3.7',
+     ext_modules=[awscrt_ext()],
+-    cmdclass={'build_ext': awscrt_build_ext, "bdist_wheel": bdist_wheel_abi3},
++    cmdclass={'build_ext': awscrt_build_ext},
+     test_suite='test',
+ )