diff --git a/textproc/py-ntc-templates/Makefile b/textproc/py-ntc-templates/Makefile
index 1870b0bf6bda..99f864ab983b 100644
--- a/textproc/py-ntc-templates/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-ntc-templates/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,33 @@
 PORTNAME=	ntc-templates
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	6.0.0
+DISTVERSION=	7.1.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc net-mgmt python
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	kai@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	TextFSM Templates for Network Devices
 WWW=		https://github.com/networktocode/ntc-templates
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}poetry-core>=1.0.0:devel/py-poetry-core@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}textfsm>=1.1.0<2.0.0:textproc/py-textfsm@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}invoke>0:devel/py-invoke@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ruamel.yaml>0:devel/py-ruamel.yaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}toml>0:textproc/py-toml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=0:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	networktocode
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517 pytest
 
 TEST_ENV=	PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+post-patch:
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|%%DISTVERSION%%|${DISTVERSION}|' ${WRKSRC}/pyproject.toml
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-ntc-templates/distinfo b/textproc/py-ntc-templates/distinfo
index 29488cc283dd..85730b61a599 100644
--- a/textproc/py-ntc-templates/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-ntc-templates/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1721275150
-SHA256 (networktocode-ntc-templates-v6.0.0_GH0.tar.gz) = f67701c01a86495f9b137a075f7806c381af5aa0fa91195d7960492e7aac5e2c
-SIZE (networktocode-ntc-templates-v6.0.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 1269154
+TIMESTAMP = 1727442242
+SHA256 (networktocode-ntc-templates-v7.1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 580457e8147fb0088211a5a34719d28480d20fc0ca6fd0965e486c2685db37f5
+SIZE (networktocode-ntc-templates-v7.1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 1477512
diff --git a/textproc/py-ntc-templates/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/textproc/py-ntc-templates/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index 027ad99c77e2..2512dc0160f3 100644
--- a/textproc/py-ntc-templates/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/textproc/py-ntc-templates/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,14 +1,25 @@
+Use the actual version, otherwise it would lead to staging errors as the
+produced wheels contain the wrong version.
+
 Avoid installing "LICENSE" and "README.md" on top of Python's "site-packages/"
 directory which would lead to conflicting packages.
 
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2024-02-09 20:50:23 UTC
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2024-09-18 13:56:50 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ name = "ntc_templates"
+ [tool.poetry]
+ name = "ntc_templates"
+-version = "6.0.0"
++version = "%%DISTVERSION%%"
+ description = "TextFSM Templates for Network Devices, and Python wrapper for TextFSM's CliTable."
+ authors = ["Network to Code <info@networktocode.com>"]
+ license = "Apache-2.0"
 @@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ include = [
      "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
  ]
  include = [
 -    "LICENSE",
 -    "README.md",
      "ntc_templates/templates/*.textfsm",
      "ntc_templates/templates/index",
  ]