diff --git a/devel/py-cppy/Makefile b/devel/py-cppy/Makefile
index e3275f375282b..0148b459f7914 100644
--- a/devel/py-cppy/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-cppy/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	cppy
-DISTVERSION=	1.1.0
+DISTVERSION=	1.2.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ COMMENT=	Collection of C++ headers to write Python C extension modules
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-USES=		python:3.6+
+USES=		python:3.7+
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
diff --git a/devel/py-cppy/distinfo b/devel/py-cppy/distinfo
index 1dc4b94cda5a1..1eb10162f6a43 100644
--- a/devel/py-cppy/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-cppy/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1586582962
-SHA256 (cppy-1.1.0.tar.gz) = 4eda6f1952054a270f32dc11df7c5e24b259a09fddf7bfaa5f33df9fb4a29642
-SIZE (cppy-1.1.0.tar.gz) = 11777
+TIMESTAMP = 1656941315
+SHA256 (cppy-1.2.1.tar.gz) = 83b43bf17b1085ac15c5debdb42154f138b928234b21447358981f69d0d6fe1b
+SIZE (cppy-1.2.1.tar.gz) = 18040