diff --git a/databases/py-mysql-connector-python/Makefile b/databases/py-mysql-connector-python/Makefile
index c5cab0e3f895..46a241418b79 100644
--- a/databases/py-mysql-connector-python/Makefile
+++ b/databases/py-mysql-connector-python/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,32 @@
 PORTNAME=	mysql-connector-python
-PORTVERSION=	8.0.23
+PORTVERSION=	8.0.27
 CATEGORIES=	databases python
-MASTER_SITES=	MYSQL/Connector-Python
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	MySQL driver written in Python
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}dnspython>0:dns/py-dnspython@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}protobuf>=3.7.1:devel/py-protobuf@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python:3.6+
+USE_GITHUB=	yes
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
 
+GH_ACCOUNT=	mysql
+
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 PYDISTUTILS_INSTALLARGS:=	${PYDISTUTILS_INSTALLARGS:N--single-version-externally-managed}
+post-patch:
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|"gcc"|"${CC}"|g ; \
+		s|"g++"|"${CXX}"|g' \
+		${WRKSRC}/cpydist/__init__.py
 
 do-test:
 	@(cd ${TEST_WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${TEST_ENV} ${PYTHON_CMD} ./unittests.py)
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/databases/py-mysql-connector-python/distinfo b/databases/py-mysql-connector-python/distinfo
index 4b6aa7cc7d2e..bda0976bdaf8 100644
--- a/databases/py-mysql-connector-python/distinfo
+++ b/databases/py-mysql-connector-python/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1613071132
-SHA256 (mysql-connector-python-8.0.23.tar.gz) = 5e84dcc25d4b505118e0c28f07de496a41bc0ab121232a2aba83d0248cd49257
-SIZE (mysql-connector-python-8.0.23.tar.gz) = 12095843
+TIMESTAMP = 1635536295
+SHA256 (mysql-mysql-connector-python-8.0.27_GH0.tar.gz) = 4779bc931751148ebe1b734291f8c25ba4ebc63e79ac4eeb8a07351a91f8e438
+SIZE (mysql-mysql-connector-python-8.0.27_GH0.tar.gz) = 15202354