diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
index aec056963f170..77444de017ac7 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.7.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.7.3
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
diff --git a/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo b/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
index 6e14f4ff60568..a8517cad54a46 100644
--- a/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-xgboost/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1667620826
-SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = f2ae7ed3890950ebf28f63eeb59f4d1c10e997fb765fee40e7a2982befd21ed9
-SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1864706
+TIMESTAMP = 1673176848
+SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.3_GH0.tar.gz) = ed5487c81627e7401924e881398c9bda6efc12ee329bcd1aea20866434f4d98a
+SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 1867653
diff --git a/misc/xgboost/Makefile b/misc/xgboost/Makefile
index d0c95eae32c52..0dc7eb35e4327 100644
--- a/misc/xgboost/Makefile
+++ b/misc/xgboost/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PORTNAME=	xgboost
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.7.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.7.3
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ BROKEN_armv7=	compilation fails: non-constant-expression cannot be narrowed from
 BROKEN_i386=	compilation fails: non-constant-expression cannot be narrowed from type 'unsigned long long' to 'size_t', see https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/8489
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libdmlc.so:devel/dmlc-core
+TEST_DEPENDS=	googletest>0:devel/googletest
 
 USES=		cmake:testing compiler:c++11-lang localbase:ldflags
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
diff --git a/misc/xgboost/distinfo b/misc/xgboost/distinfo
index 3339c2e209894..ce410cc50f0d8 100644
--- a/misc/xgboost/distinfo
+++ b/misc/xgboost/distinfo
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1667614680
-SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = f2ae7ed3890950ebf28f63eeb59f4d1c10e997fb765fee40e7a2982befd21ed9
-SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1864706
+TIMESTAMP = 1673176237
+SHA256 (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.3_GH0.tar.gz) = ed5487c81627e7401924e881398c9bda6efc12ee329bcd1aea20866434f4d98a
+SIZE (dmlc-xgboost-v1.7.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 1867653
 SHA256 (NVlabs-cub-af39ee2_GH0.tar.gz) = 3444f1d0af16d3680bf5089c1a91e707769d946580b80f12463860366fb6884b
 SIZE (NVlabs-cub-af39ee2_GH0.tar.gz) = 413215
 SHA256 (rapidsai-gputreeshap-acb5be3_GH0.tar.gz) = c2b67f8f398000570cac6b9d82a0bdab251105391602a3e07fd497c5e61534c4