diff --git a/misc/py-fast-histogram/Makefile b/misc/py-fast-histogram/Makefile
index 871325affbd6..5f6a8ddd0f3a 100644
--- a/misc/py-fast-histogram/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-fast-histogram/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	fast-histogram
-DISTVERSION=	0.7
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	0.8
 CATEGORIES=	misc python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -13,10 +12,14 @@ COMMENT=	Fast simple 1D and 2D histograms
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm>0:devel/py-setuptools_scm@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
+post-install:
+	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/fast_histogram/_histogram_core.so
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-fast-histogram/distinfo b/misc/py-fast-histogram/distinfo
index 73e2342580aa..ad45ff3048dc 100644
--- a/misc/py-fast-histogram/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-fast-histogram/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1548101267
-SHA256 (fast-histogram-0.7.tar.gz) = aabf0e0287ece8fb443dfd8c3bb36c784c07e3100906394d9baea91572067ca9
-SIZE (fast-histogram-0.7.tar.gz) = 13170
+TIMESTAMP = 1578786129
+SHA256 (fast-histogram-0.8.tar.gz) = cd55aea64fceee562b3aaaed6c9a15093243d071c5ded23f1ff29c895ad14319
+SIZE (fast-histogram-0.8.tar.gz) = 41571