diff --git a/devel/py-xdoctest/Makefile b/devel/py-xdoctest/Makefile
index 1fe3eb0aa272..59f20aa69fd0 100644
--- a/devel/py-xdoctest/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-xdoctest/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,34 @@
 PORTNAME=	xdoctest
-DISTVERSION=	1.0.2
+DISTVERSION=	1.1.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI # has no tests
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python package for executing tests in documentation strings
 WWW=		https://github.com/Erotemic/xdoctest
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}six>=1.11.0:devel/py-six@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}six>=1.11.0:devel/py-six@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}codecov>=2.0.15:devel/py-codecov@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}coverage>=2.0.15:devel/py-coverage@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-cov>0:devel/py-pytest-cov@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.25.1:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python:3.6+
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils concurrent autoplist pytest # some tests fail, see https://github.com/Erotemic/xdoctest/issues/131
+USE_PYTHON=	distutils concurrent autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
+do-test: # 5 tests fail, see https://github.com/Erotemic/xdoctest/issues/131; more failures w/out the below arguments to pytest
+	@cd ${TEST_WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${TEST_ENV} ${PYTHON_CMD} -m pytest -k '' -p pytester -rs -v -o addopts=
+
 alt-test: # tests using the xdoctest executable
 	@cd ${TEST_WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${TEST_ENV} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/xdoctest -m xdoctest
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-xdoctest/distinfo b/devel/py-xdoctest/distinfo
index f91e1225eee6..8be45e29ed08 100644
--- a/devel/py-xdoctest/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-xdoctest/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1662272446
-SHA256 (xdoctest-1.0.2.tar.gz) = 1bbf8de45dadbb31f1e2c9f427b4cc915d6d655c347b03bba6979653939ece34
-SIZE (xdoctest-1.0.2.tar.gz) = 177256
+TIMESTAMP = 1679942402
+SHA256 (xdoctest-1.1.1.tar.gz) = 2eac8131bdcdf2781b4e5a62d6de87f044b730cc8db8af142a51bb29c245e779
+SIZE (xdoctest-1.1.1.tar.gz) = 181995