diff --git a/devel/py-ckanapi/Makefile b/devel/py-ckanapi/Makefile
index fb47da9ae327b..a248e6a539e6d 100644
--- a/devel/py-ckanapi/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-ckanapi/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	ckanapi
-PORTVERSION=	4.7
+PORTVERSION=	4.8
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -10,13 +10,16 @@ WWW=		https://github.com/ckan/ckanapi
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}docopt>=0:devel/py-docopt@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}python-slugify>=1.0:textproc/py-python-slugify@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}simplejson>=0:devel/py-simplejson@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}six>=1.9<2.0:devel/py-six@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
diff --git a/devel/py-ckanapi/distinfo b/devel/py-ckanapi/distinfo
index f7850a956873c..1deffb8e9f228 100644
--- a/devel/py-ckanapi/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-ckanapi/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1658176300
-SHA256 (ckanapi-4.7.tar.gz) = 6cb1414faef384de58a0e1f648b977177db444e95073b65ed950f2a8b0f55d0d
-SIZE (ckanapi-4.7.tar.gz) = 33192
+TIMESTAMP = 1712330585
+SHA256 (ckanapi-4.8.tar.gz) = 3a98d81e6cb7480883eb1d031740205d3e94176376e9d284d218829d81d0afed
+SIZE (ckanapi-4.8.tar.gz) = 37633