diff --git a/devel/py-configobj/Makefile b/devel/py-configobj/Makefile
index ae6ffc994330..b9443f45ad77 100644
--- a/devel/py-configobj/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-configobj/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	configobj
-PORTVERSION=	5.0.6
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	5.0.8
+PORTREVISION=	0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	nivit@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple but powerful config file reader and writer
 WWW=		https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=63.0.1:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0.40.0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}six>0:devel/py-six@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		python:3.6+
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+USES=		python:3.7+
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-configobj/distinfo b/devel/py-configobj/distinfo
index fa9e3f7a080e..0d44f2f716c8 100644
--- a/devel/py-configobj/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-configobj/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-SHA256 (configobj-5.0.6.tar.gz) = a2f5650770e1c87fb335af19a9b7eb73fc05ccf22144eb68db7d00cd2bcb0902
-SIZE (configobj-5.0.6.tar.gz) = 33248
+TIMESTAMP = 1681224723
+SHA256 (configobj-5.0.8.tar.gz) = 6f704434a07dc4f4dc7c9a745172c1cad449feb548febd9f7fe362629c627a97
+SIZE (configobj-5.0.8.tar.gz) = 38012