diff --git a/archivers/py-zstandard/Makefile b/archivers/py-zstandard/Makefile
index 95dddf8b600d3..0e808dcc1650b 100644
--- a/archivers/py-zstandard/Makefile
+++ b/archivers/py-zstandard/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	zstandard
-DISTVERSION=	0.21.0
+DISTVERSION=	0.22.0
 CATEGORIES=	archivers python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 BROKEN_FreeBSD_12_powerpc64=	fails to build: cffi.error.CDefError: parse error
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cffi>=1.8.0:devel/py-cffi@${PY_FLAVOR}
-LIB_DEPENDS=	libzstd.so:archivers/zstd
+#LIB_DEPENDS=	libzstd.so:archivers/zstd
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hypothesis>0:devel/py-hypothesis@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		localbase python
diff --git a/archivers/py-zstandard/distinfo b/archivers/py-zstandard/distinfo
index d114cb80e1ff8..f106a67210981 100644
--- a/archivers/py-zstandard/distinfo
+++ b/archivers/py-zstandard/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1681789212
-SHA256 (zstandard-0.21.0.tar.gz) = f08e3a10d01a247877e4cb61a82a319ea746c356a3786558bed2481e6c405546
-SIZE (zstandard-0.21.0.tar.gz) = 659790
+TIMESTAMP = 1699201957
+SHA256 (zstandard-0.22.0.tar.gz) = 8226a33c542bcb54cd6bd0a366067b610b41713b64c9abec1bc4533d69f51e70
+SIZE (zstandard-0.22.0.tar.gz) = 660738