diff --git a/devel/py-wcwidth/Makefile b/devel/py-wcwidth/Makefile
index 100f9be1b007..8a70e5a15f84 100644
--- a/devel/py-wcwidth/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-wcwidth/Makefile
@@ -1,18 +1,21 @@
 PORTNAME=	wcwidth
-PORTVERSION=	0.2.8
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	0.7.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
-MAINTAINER=	skreuzer@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT=	Determine the printable width of the terminal
+MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Measure the displayed width of unicode strings in a terminal
 WWW=		https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
+
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatchling>=0:devel/py-hatchling@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-NO_ARCH=	yes
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
+
+NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-wcwidth/distinfo b/devel/py-wcwidth/distinfo
index 2ed1daa974c5..7f0e7ceb987e 100644
--- a/devel/py-wcwidth/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-wcwidth/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1697160405
-SHA256 (wcwidth-0.2.8.tar.gz) = 8705c569999ffbb4f6a87c6d1b80f324bd6db952f5eb0b95bc07517f4c1813d4
-SIZE (wcwidth-0.2.8.tar.gz) = 61713
+TIMESTAMP = 1777984329
+SHA256 (wcwidth-0.7.0.tar.gz) = 90e3a7ea092341c44b99562e75d09e4d5160fe7a3974c6fb842a101a95e7eed0
+SIZE (wcwidth-0.7.0.tar.gz) = 182132