diff --git a/sysutils/py-queuelib/Makefile b/sysutils/py-queuelib/Makefile
index 93651988c596..04f085043785 100644
--- a/sysutils/py-queuelib/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/py-queuelib/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	queuelib
-PORTVERSION=	1.6.2
+PORTVERSION=	1.7.0
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ WWW=		https://github.com/scrapy/queuelib
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sqlite3>0:databases/py-sqlite3@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS:=	${RUN_DEPENDS}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils pytest
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517 pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
diff --git a/sysutils/py-queuelib/distinfo b/sysutils/py-queuelib/distinfo
index 46a91b98c9d6..ae97357b9616 100644
--- a/sysutils/py-queuelib/distinfo
+++ b/sysutils/py-queuelib/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1667244316
-SHA256 (queuelib-1.6.2.tar.gz) = 4b207267f2642a8699a1f806045c56eb7ad1a85a10c0e249884580d139c2fcd2
-SIZE (queuelib-1.6.2.tar.gz) = 12787
+TIMESTAMP = 1715818445
+SHA256 (queuelib-1.7.0.tar.gz) = 2855162096cf0230510890b354379ea1c0ff19d105d3147d349d2433bb222b08
+SIZE (queuelib-1.7.0.tar.gz) = 13291